See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;Q213904&


for a detailed description. Microsoft's advice is to reduce and
simplify the number of formats.

Hope this helps.

Pete


On Oct 8, 5:01 pm, JimmyG wrote:
I am trying to format cells, and I get the message "too many cell formats", I
understand what it is saying, but how do I fix the problem?