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Cell Format changed from General to number
Hi List,
There is an Excel file used for user to enter next year's budget. the whole speadsheet is protected except the cells that allow user to enter numbers. and these cells's format is 'general'. Since users need to have more space to type in numbers, we need to keep the cell format as 'General'. but if user typed "," manually like "123,456". the next time they enter number in the cell the number will be showing as "123,456" instead of "123456". I checked the file and found out even if the cell's format is setup as general, once user type in "," manually with numbers, the cell format will be changed to number with use 1000 Separator checked. how to protect this happened? Pleae help. thanks. |
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Cell Format changed from General to number
How about preformatting the cells as Text
or Starting the value with an apostrophe: '123,456 BJ wrote: Hi List, There is an Excel file used for user to enter next year's budget. the whole speadsheet is protected except the cells that allow user to enter numbers. and these cells's format is 'general'. Since users need to have more space to type in numbers, we need to keep the cell format as 'General'. but if user typed "," manually like "123,456". the next time they enter number in the cell the number will be showing as "123,456" instead of "123456". I checked the file and found out even if the cell's format is setup as general, once user type in "," manually with numbers, the cell format will be changed to number with use 1000 Separator checked. how to protect this happened? Pleae help. thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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