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Default Is it possible to emulate a ten-key entry in Excel?

Garth

ToolsOptionsEdit.

Check "Fixed Decimal Places" and set for 2

Enter 1234 returns 12.34


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:28:02 -0800, Garth Hales
wrote:

I want to set up a quick entry system in one column of a spread sheet. It
should act like the old ten-key calculator or adding machine set for
accounting style entry - that is all entries are assumed to end in two
decimal places, eliminating the typing of the decimal point itself.