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Excel 2003 - funny bug
A co-worker has been befuddled by a strange bug in Excel. He is preparing a
budget and whenever he tries to enter the digit "2" into a cell, it displays as a 1. This is true even if we format the cell to show large number of decimal places. We can enter 12, 21, 22, etc., it's just changing the single digit "2" into the value 1. Has anyone ever seen this before? We have rebooted, and checked for conditional formatting (this happens in any worksheet, even a blank one). Our workaround is to enter something like =6/3, which displays the expected "2". This is obviously silly. What can we do to fix this? -- Craig Biddle GM |
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Go to Tools AutoCorrect Options and key in 2 in the Replace box. It should
pull up an entry to replace 2 with 1. Delete it. HTH Jason Atlanta, GA "CraigBGM" wrote: A co-worker has been befuddled by a strange bug in Excel. He is preparing a budget and whenever he tries to enter the digit "2" into a cell, it displays as a 1. This is true even if we format the cell to show large number of decimal places. We can enter 12, 21, 22, etc., it's just changing the single digit "2" into the value 1. Has anyone ever seen this before? We have rebooted, and checked for conditional formatting (this happens in any worksheet, even a blank one). Our workaround is to enter something like =6/3, which displays the expected "2". This is obviously silly. What can we do to fix this? -- Craig Biddle GM |
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The only thing I can think of is that you have something in the AUTOCORRECT
to change 2 to 1. "CraigBGM" wrote: A co-worker has been befuddled by a strange bug in Excel. He is preparing a budget and whenever he tries to enter the digit "2" into a cell, it displays as a 1. This is true even if we format the cell to show large number of decimal places. We can enter 12, 21, 22, etc., it's just changing the single digit "2" into the value 1. Has anyone ever seen this before? We have rebooted, and checked for conditional formatting (this happens in any worksheet, even a blank one). Our workaround is to enter something like =6/3, which displays the expected "2". This is obviously silly. What can we do to fix this? -- Craig Biddle GM |
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