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Lisa

More than 15 digits in excel cell it turns them to zeros. Fix?
 
If you put more than 15 digits an a cell and hit enter, the cell automatical
turns all the digits past the 15th one into zeros. Is there a way to correct
this?

Ron Coderre

More than 15 digits in excel cell it turns them to zeros. Fix?
 
Excel can only handle 15 digit numbers.

Hoping that you really need a text string of numeric characters and not an
actual number that big....

Either start the entry with an apostrophe ( ' )
OR
Format the cells as text before entering
<format<cells<number tab....Category: Text

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Lisa" wrote:

If you put more than 15 digits an a cell and hit enter, the cell automatical
turns all the digits past the 15th one into zeros. Is there a way to correct
this?



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