I am not sure if a problem exists.

if you place 123.5 in a cell and format it as having 2 decimal places, it
will appear in the cell as:
123.50

If you copy the cell and paste into a Word doc, it will paste in as
123.50
It should preserve the format in Word. In fact, I rely on this to get
as-formatted Excel values!
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"Lulu" wrote:

I'll try again. I am setting up a mail merge taking data from excel 2003 and
merging into a word document. How do I get a figure in a cell e.g. 234.50
which appears in the formula bar as 234.5 to show up in the word document as
234.50 ?