Neil

Does this occur with every workbook? New workbooks? Existing workbooks? Just
one workbook?

First make sure the cells are formatted as General and not Text.

A Format change alone after the fact will not change the data to numbers.
Excel must be forced to recognize the data as numbers.

To change existing data to numbers, copy an empty cell.

Select range of data and Paste SpecialAddOKEsc.

Data should now be numbers.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP


On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:10:02 -0800, "neil"
wrote:

When ever i start excel 2003 and type numbers they come up as text so i can
not use any functions, i have tried formatting the cells to numbers but this
does not work, i have even re-installed office with no luck, can any body
help me