You could change the Normal Style.

Format|Style|Choose Normal from the Dropdown
Click modify
Change the number format to what you like.

But styles travel with the workbook--not with excel.

So if you want that style for all new workbooks, create a new workbook with that
style. Save it as a template in your XLStart folder--and call it book.xlt.

Every workbook that you start by clicking on that New icon will inherit that
style from the template workbook.

But before you do this. Try entering a date. Dates are just numbers and excel
will treat them as such.

I wouldn't do it.

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An alternative is to just change the numberformat of the selection when you
want.

You could add a macro to your personal.xls workbook that looked like:

Option Explicit
Sub ChangeNumberFormat()
Selection.NumberFormat = "#,##0.00"
End Sub

Then do your data entry, select all the cells you want and run the macro.

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

cmannaccountant wrote:

I know how to set a default font for new excel speadsheets, but is there a
similar setup option for setting a default number format. I don't like the
default format being 2500, I need it to be 2,500.00.

Thanks for your help

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Dave Peterson