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Elkar Elkar is offline
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Default How to type 123 & have it print 1.23 without using Options..edit?

This Custom Format will do what you're asking:

0\.00

However, be careful, because this ONLY affects the display, and not the
number that is stored. So, 123 would appear as 1.23, but would still be
treated as One-Hundred-Twenty-Three. If you need to use these cells for
calculations, then first divide them by 100.

HTH,
Elkar


"Jim Wyns" wrote:

I want to format a range of cells so that it automatically places the decimal
point as if it were money...i.e. type 123 & have it print 1.23. I want to do
this without using the Options....edit which does it for the whole
spreadsheet, thus not allowing different types of number formats elsewhere in
the spreadsheet. I don't have any negative numbers, and I feel the answer is
in the custom number format, but I haven't been able to figure how it works.