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Default Input numbers appearing incorrectly on spreadsheet

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Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:25:01 -0800, Error in inputting numbers into excel <Error
in inputting numbers into wrote:

When I type a number into excel the number appearing in the cell is divided
by 100.
i.e. if I input 1 the number in the cell is 0.01
but if I input 1.0 the number is correctly displayed as 1

Any ideas, it driving me to drink