"Trevor Shuttleworth" wrote:
There wasn't a typo ..

Apologies for the wrong inference, Trevor

Note that if you type 12 ..

I was going on the premise that since the OP mentioned:

" ... results from a formula
involving two cell references, eg $b$24/$c$24..."

that the desired formatting was meant for the results from formulas, not for
formatting data entries, hence the resulting (wrong) inference ..
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