wrong assumption.

Be carefull to assign a localized string to the value property.
goes for dates and decimal numbers... you're asking for trouble

Format is internationally aware...thus Format(1.2345,"Percent")
produces a string "123,45%" on a system with a comma as decimal
separator.

It's inserted as a string. LEFT aligned. You COULD use it in formulas
because excel will try to evaluate cell references used in formulas as
numbers... but it's shaky.. (it will only be converted to a VALUE(
number) when the user presses F2 enter... if you leave it a string
then opening the sheet in a different locale spells trouble.

It makes far more sense to assign a Double to .Value
THEN format it using numberformat.

When dates can be involved it may get worse so for
safety I often just use .Value2 (and .Numberformat)

If you want to experiment, just play around with Regional Settings.


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Jim Cone wrote :


Thank you for pointing that out, I will keep it for future reference.

Would I assume correctly that: .Value = Format$(StartVal, "Percent")
would not create a problem?

For others reading this, it should be noted that formatting and
calculation should not be done inside a loop, if it can be avoided.

Regards,
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA


"keepITcool" wrote in message
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Jim,
note that writing Format(1.23,"%") it will not
work in situations where users have a comma as decimal separator.
I think that a better way to do this would be:

Sub AlsoLoop()
Dim Cnt As Long
Dim NumToFill As Long
NumToFill = Worksheets(1).Range("a1")
ActiveCell.Resize(NumToFill).NumberFormat = "0.00%"
For Cnt = 1 To NumToFill
ActiveCell.Cells(Cnt, 1).Value = Application.Round(Cnt / NumToFill, 4)
Next Cnt
End Sub

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