If the cell is formatted as general a number with more than 11 digits will
be displayed in the scientific format.
You can show a max of 15 digits but anything above 11 must be formatted as
number or custom not general.
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"cb" wrote in message
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TYPING NUMBERS IN A CELL
WHEN I GO TO ANOTHER CELL THE NUMBERS APPEAR DIFFERENT AND WITH + SIGNS
LIKE
THIS 5.63209E+11
HOW DO I CLEAR IT ?