Hi,

Gosh, am I embarrassed.
It was text after all.

Sure is a lot to learn.

Sorry.

As always, much thanks,
Bob

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"Robert11" wrote in message
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Hi,

Sorry for all these dumb questions, but I never had any problems with
Excel 97.

This one is apparently just too complicated for me at my old age.

Anyway, thanks for all the help; really appreciate it.

So, using Excel 2007, and XP

I select a cell that has a number in it with 5 decimal places.
I go to Format Cells, and select Number, and tell it to go to 4 decimal
places.

It won't, and continues to show 5 decimal places.

This is also true if I try it on a column of numbers.

What am I not doing right ?
(I am sure that what appears in the cell is truly a number, and not text.)

Thanks,
Bob