Sorry - I know enough about Excel to be dangerous. Publisher is my forte.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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"Nospam" wrote in message
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Oh--he said sheepishly. What about the formatting? Thanks. --Arthur

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message
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##### means your column isn't wide enough for the data. ;-)

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JoAnn Paules
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"Nospam" wrote in message
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I'm using Excel 2002. I've created a spreadsheet of my weightlifting
workouts--dates, exercises, and in the cells, the number of sets I
perform with the number of repetitions. For instance, cells have numbers
like 2-12, 2-9, 3-12, indicating two or three sets of 9 or 12
repetitions. The problem is that I'm formatting the cells as general,
but I'm still getting a green triangle in the upper left cell corner,
and when I hold the cursor over the cell, the yellow exclamation point
appears, asking me if I want to ignore the formatting error. In some
cells that I think I've already formatted, my numbers turn to "###." I
want to enter the numbers as plain text with no other formatting. What
am I doing wrong?

Also, what's the formatting difference between "general" and "text"
formatting?

Thanks. --Arthur