alt+'(apostrophe) will bring up the style box where you may change the
defaults.

"kakers" wrote:

I get irritated with some of the default settings within excel. I see that
you can change the default setting for fonts, but not for number formats. Is
there anyway there something that I'm missing with respect to this?

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