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How can I force Excel to recognise and display as different values 1.1 and
1.10? Formatting to two decimal places makes both 1.10 as does using the general format. -- tia Jock |
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You'd have to enter at least one as text. If they are numbers, Excel
recognises them as the same, so reformatting is too late, as the formatting is applied to the already-stored number. -- David Biddulph "Jock" wrote in message ... How can I force Excel to recognise and display as different values 1.1 and 1.10? Formatting to two decimal places makes both 1.10 as does using the general format. -- tia Jock |
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Only way I know of for this is to format the cell as Text. You can then
enter 1.1 and 1.10 and they will remain that way. "Jock" wrote: How can I force Excel to recognise and display as different values 1.1 and 1.10? Formatting to two decimal places makes both 1.10 as does using the general format. -- tia Jock |
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Thanks to David and Dom
-- tia Jock "Dom_Ciccone" wrote: Only way I know of for this is to format the cell as Text. You can then enter 1.1 and 1.10 and they will remain that way. "Jock" wrote: How can I force Excel to recognise and display as different values 1.1 and 1.10? Formatting to two decimal places makes both 1.10 as does using the general format. -- tia Jock |
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As long as you let excel see those values as numbers, excel will always "treat"
them as the same number. If you want 1.1 to be a different value than 1.10, you may want to force excel to see them as text. You can either start your data entry with an apostrophe: '1.10 or you can PRE-Format the cell as text (format|Cells|number tab), then do the data entry. ps. If you're doing this so that you can use it for an outline (maybe sort by this field), don't use 1.1, use 1.01 (still text though). Jock wrote: How can I force Excel to recognise and display as different values 1.1 and 1.10? Formatting to two decimal places makes both 1.10 as does using the general format. -- tia Jock -- Dave Peterson |
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