The cell is where it should show. In the formula only the number itself
should show.

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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

"Margy" wrote in message
...
When I type a value (e.g. 35) into the cell with custom format 000 " tons"
is
shows 000 tons in the cell and 35 in the formula bar. Very puzzling as I
have
been doing this for years on all versions of Excel - even 2007 and it is
only
my new notebook and DEesktop with Vista that is giving this problem - that
is
why I thought it might be related to Vista.
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Margy


"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Have you tried?

000 " tons"


which should be the correct way of doing it on any version and on any OS

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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

"Margy" wrote in message
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Sorry Roger should have told you what happened.

If I customized 000 "tons" - when I type a value e.g. 35 into the cell
it
will read 000tons and does not show e.g. 35 tons - that is only on the
Vista
PCs.
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Margy


"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi Margy

When you say it does not work, what happens? What do you see in the
cell.
Works perfectly for me on Vista Business and XL2007

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Regards
Roger Govier

"Margy" wrote in message
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Format Cell - Number Tab - Category Customer. If we put in e.g.
"Inv"
000
and
cells will read Inv 014 etc. If we do 00 "Kg" (i.e. after the 00)
would
read
14 Kg etc. This has always worked on any computer running Excel 2007
on
Windows XP. On both our computers running on Vista Busines if we
custom
the
number "Inv" 000 - no matter what we put in front of the number - it
works -
but it will not work when we put the word after the number i.e. 00
"Kg"
Assistance will be much appreciated.
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Margy
Pinetown, South Africa