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Ragdyer
 
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Default exponential numbers in cells

Are the cells formatted as General?

Have you tried making the columns wider?

A General formatted cell that's too narrow to display the contained number
can be displayed in any of 3 forms.
Much too narrow = ####
Make slightly wider = 1.23E+08
Make wider still = 123456789

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HTH,

RD

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"dick" wrote in message
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I sell on eBay and when I have to download my offerings the Item IDs come
back in 9 to 10 digit numbers and are put in excel cells. Excel puts

these
number into exponents that for some reason I cannot get to show up in

their
original form ( their full length)
Can someone tell me how to format the cells so that the numbers show up in
their non exponential form