Make sure the "00000" is within quotes, that's all I can think of.

"bluebean" wrote:


Thanks for that guys - unfortunately when I go in to do that, it changes
all the cells to yellow, regardless of whether or not they end with
00000.....
any ideas why this would be? thanks.


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