It's not a known bug. I cannot reproduce it and have never seen it reported
here.

Btw, a shortcut for currency format is Ctrl-Shift-4 (top row 4).

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Jim
"p6464" wrote in message
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| In excel 2003, if I type a number into a blank cell, then right click and
| choose "format", if I click on "currency" and then hit "ok", it will not
| change the cell formatting to currency. If I do it a second time, it
always
| works? This is clearly a bug, is there an update?