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15 character field truncating
This isn't really a question. I just need to explain properly from a more
authoritative voice than myself why something is happening to a client. She is entering a 15 digit character in excel (all numbers). It is truncating it down to a few numbers plus that e+ thing. For example entering 153469874563216 becomes 1.5437E+14 when the cell is formatted as general or number. I explained as best I could why and to format the cell as text or add a single quote to the beginning, but she said it didn't work for her that way before. She has Word XP and I had several others try and it did the same thing to them. I have Word 2003 and it worked fine for me, no truncating. I just need something intelligent to tell this person, because she didn't like my explanation. Thanks, Carla |
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Hi
Excel only supports 15 significant digits. If you need to enter more (e.g. a credit card number) two options: 1. Preformat the cell as 'Text' (Format - Cells') 2. precede the entry with an apostrophe. e.g. '1234567890123456 -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany "Carla Bradley" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... This isn't really a question. I just need to explain properly from a more authoritative voice than myself why something is happening to a client. She is entering a 15 digit character in excel (all numbers). It is truncating it down to a few numbers plus that e+ thing. For example entering 153469874563216 becomes 1.5437E+14 when the cell is formatted as general or number. I explained as best I could why and to format the cell as text or add a single quote to the beginning, but she said it didn't work for her that way before. She has Word XP and I had several others try and it did the same thing to them. I have Word 2003 and it worked fine for me, no truncating. I just need something intelligent to tell this person, because she didn't like my explanation. Thanks, Carla |
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If you format the cell as a number(rather than general) then a 15-digit
integer will appear with all the digits. At least that's what happens in my copy of Excel 2003. The client should format all the cells that need these large numbers as numbers. If you go beyond 15 digits you'll lose the digits beyond the 15th place as expected. Entering 123456789012345678 will display as 123456789012345000. The cell contents will also display the last three digits as zero's. Quattro Pro works the same way, except the cell contents are displayed as 1.23456789012346E+17. We're talking quadrillions here, people. That's even beyond the federal deficit! What's the need for such big numbers? I could never figure out why credit card companies needed 16 digits, except for Amex, which seems to get by with just 15. Bill "Carla Bradley" wrote in message ... This isn't really a question. I just need to explain properly from a more authoritative voice than myself why something is happening to a client. She is entering a 15 digit character in excel (all numbers). It is truncating it down to a few numbers plus that e+ thing. For example entering 153469874563216 becomes 1.5437E+14 when the cell is formatted as general or number. I explained as best I could why and to format the cell as text or add a single quote to the beginning, but she said it didn't work for her that way before. She has Word XP and I had several others try and it did the same thing to them. I have Word 2003 and it worked fine for me, no truncating. I just need something intelligent to tell this person, because she didn't like my explanation. Thanks, Carla |
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We're talking quadrillions here, people. That's even beyond the
federal deficit! What's the need for such big numbers? I could never figure out why credit card companies needed 16 digits, except for Amex, which seems to get by with just 15. :-) just think about Turkish Lira and having to deal with large currency trades in this specific currency (or before the Euro: Italian Lira). There're applications where 15 digits are not enough :-) Frank |
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Or BillG's checkbook <vbg.
Frank Kabel wrote: We're talking quadrillions here, people. That's even beyond the federal deficit! What's the need for such big numbers? I could never figure out why credit card companies needed 16 digits, except for Amex, which seems to get by with just 15. :-) just think about Turkish Lira and having to deal with large currency trades in this specific currency (or before the Euro: Italian Lira). There're applications where 15 digits are not enough :-) Frank -- Dave Peterson |
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