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Excel XP help - entering large numbers
Pleeeese help.
I have a spreadsheet which I am using to store serial numbers along with other mathematical information. The problem I am having is when I enter a serial number with sixteen digits it changes the last digit to a 0. seventeen digits changes the last two digits to 0s and so on. Is these anyway to stop this happening without changing the cell formatting to text. The current cell format is number with no decimals. Big G |
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Excel XP help - entering large numbers
As it is not a 'number' prefix it with a single apostrophe. It will not show
but will be treated as text. Numbers in Excel over 15 digits, will be treated as zeroes -- HTH Nick Hodge Microsoft MVP - Excel Southampton, England DTHIS www.nickhodge.co.uk "BigG" wrote in message ... Pleeeese help. I have a spreadsheet which I am using to store serial numbers along with other mathematical information. The problem I am having is when I enter a serial number with sixteen digits it changes the last digit to a 0. seventeen digits changes the last two digits to 0s and so on. Is these anyway to stop this happening without changing the cell formatting to text. The current cell format is number with no decimals. Big G |
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Excel XP help - entering large numbers
Numbers in Excel are limited to 15 digits
"BigG" wrote: Pleeeese help. I have a spreadsheet which I am using to store serial numbers along with other mathematical information. The problem I am having is when I enter a serial number with sixteen digits it changes the last digit to a 0. seventeen digits changes the last two digits to 0s and so on. Is these anyway to stop this happening without changing the cell formatting to text. The current cell format is number with no decimals. Big G |
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Excel XP help - entering large numbers
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-- David Biddulph "BigG" wrote in message ... Pleeeese help. I have a spreadsheet which I am using to store serial numbers along with other mathematical information. The problem I am having is when I enter a serial number with sixteen digits it changes the last digit to a 0. seventeen digits changes the last two digits to 0s and so on. Is these anyway to stop this happening without changing the cell formatting to text. The current cell format is number with no decimals. Big G |
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