DKR: This article describes, basically, the opposite of what you want, but
does show the dialog box:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/... ft_excel.htm
You'll just check the box and use 3 decimal places.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"DKR" wrote in message
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How do you format a cell so that you don't have to put the dot in
everytime
before typing a number like 0.123, I have hundres to enter and don't want
to
have to type that . everytime.