Hi,

Careful here, if you paste a number from a range onto a cell that is
formatted as text the number will be stored as a number not as text, unless
you tell it to paste values or paste formulas or basically you tell it to
paste without formatting.

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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"RagDyer" wrote:

*OR*

Format to TEXT *before* entering (pasting) the number.
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HTH,

RD

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"RagDyer" wrote in message
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Change the cell format to either:
Number
Accounting
or
Currency.
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HTH,

RD

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"Man T" wrote in message
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I have a sequence of digits like
5026555306553

I entered in a cell and when the cursor left the cell it displays as
5.02656E+12

How do I set the cell or the whole spreadsheet to display as text rather
than this format?