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Format won't stick
A co-woorker sent me a spreadsheet saying that she couldn't total a column of numbers. It is formatted for "Accounting, 2 decimal places", but it doesn't show zeros to the right of the decimal place. It treats the column like it was text when I try to sum it. I have tried everything like inserting a new column and doing a special paste to just put in the values and formating it and I get the same result. The sheet isn't protected or anything like that. Any ideas? -- tallyman00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tallyman00's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29971 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=502879 |
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Hi, Your description sounds similar to a problem I sometimes have (except I have numbers that don't act as a time value). The work around I used was to run through the Text to Columns wizard. This seemed to force Excel to recognise the format. Don't know if this will help. I would like to find out why Excel acts like this and if there's any proper way of preventing it. regards, Andy. -- andyiain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andyiain's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=8335 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=502879 |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:06:05 -0600, tallyman00 wrote:
A co-woorker sent me a spreadsheet saying that she couldn't total a column of numbers. It is formatted for "Accounting, 2 decimal places", but it doesn't show zeros to the right of the decimal place. It treats the column like it was text when I try to sum it. I have tried everything like inserting a new column and doing a special paste to just put in the values and formating it and I get the same result. The sheet isn't protected or anything like that. Any ideas? Well, I had a similar problem when I imported data from a database ... The solution was multiplying every cell with 1 ... Or formatting the cells to numbers and just doubleclicking followed by <enter on every cell. But that can be really annoying if you have a lot of data ... :-) Or, there was something with PasteSpecial, and then you enter "1" in one column or row and then select your cells and pastespecial to that column with the value of 1 and select multiply ... |
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