Not if the cell is pre-formatted as text and you paste into the formula bar.

"Sian" wrote in message
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Ok, this almost works (thank you!). Next problem: paste
6006491199999999999
and it replaces the last four 9s with 0s. Any ideas?


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

If the cell is already formatted as Text, then have them paste directly
into the
formula bar.

Sian wrote:

My input call is formatted as text. However when my users try to paste
large
(20 digit) numbers into it (copied from outlook email) these paste in
as
scientific notation and the cell format changes to general. This also
happens using any option in Paste Special.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but what?
Many thanks, Sian

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Dave Peterson