Siberian, tools, options, edit, if fixed decimal places is checked uncheck
it

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"Siberian" wrote in message
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My cells are defaulting to .001 on any number I use. I have tried to
change
them in formatting and even though the formtting tool seems to change it,
it
is still defaulting to the .001