Excel searches for the actual contents of a cell. If you enter 0 in a cell
Excel will find it searching for 0. Changing the cell's number format to
show 1, 2 or 10 decimal places does not change what is in the cell.

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Jim
"LA Horowitz" wrote in message
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| The 0.00 was entered as a 0 in a Number format w/2 decimal places. Using
an
| empty cell with a General format and using = and a cell which shows 0.00 I
| get 0.00 again, but still the same message when I try to find it.
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| LA Horowitz
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| "bj" wrote:
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| is the 0.00 in the sheet formatted that way?
| if you use an empty cell and enter = (One of the cells which shows 0.00)
| and make sure the cell format is general what do you get.
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| "LA Horowitz" wrote:
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| Using Find/Replace in excel, message comes up "Excel cannot find the
data
| you're looking for" even though I know many instances are there. I've
| cleared the Find format, still get the error message. I'm searching
for 0.00
| if that makes any difference. I tried searching other strings of
digits that
| are in the worksheet and it works fine but not for 0.00. Thanks.
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| LeeAnn Horowitz