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I would like to aded custom formatting to allow me to enter a number in a
cell (ie 25) and have it display as 0.25. Can anyone help.
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Go to Tools--Options--Edit and select Fixed decimal and enter the
appropriate number, which in your case is 2. Click OK and then you should be
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I would like to aded custom formatting to allow me to enter a number in a
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Right-click on the cell(s) FormatCells NumberTab Custom type in the
window "."# ok

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