i get reports from (idx) a program that are delimited files. the
columns are all fine but 1 and i can't figure it out. its supposed to
be money and comes across as 11500. in the original program (idx) it
would look like 115.00 and that is how i want it to look in excel. i
tried the easy stuff like formatting and i keep getting 11500.00 or
1150.0 in my simple mind i thought it would be easy to move that
decimal but its not turning out that way. i have thousands of line
items so doing it one by one is not the optimum solution. any help is
appreciated.

excel 2003
os XP

You really want to divide all these numbers by 100 - formatting won't
affect the values. Put the number 100 in an empty cell somewhere, then
select that cell and click <copy. Then highlight all the cells (or
columns) that you want to change and click on Edit | Paste Special |
Values (check) | Divide (check) | OK then <Esc.

You can then delete the 100 from the first cell.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Nov 6, 10:21 pm, evilyn wrote:
i get reports from (idx) a program that are delimited files. the
columns are all fine but 1 and i can't figure it out. its supposed to
be money and comes across as 11500. in the original program (idx) it
would look like 115.00 and that is how i want it to look in excel. i
tried the easy stuff like formatting and i keep getting 11500.00 or
1150.0 in my simple mind i thought it would be easy to move that
decimal but its not turning out that way. i have thousands of line
items so doing it one by one is not the optimum solution. any help is
appreciated.

excel 2003
os XP

On Nov 6, 7:33 pm, Pete_UK wrote:
You really want to divide all these numbers by 100 - formatting won't
affect the values. Put the number 100 in an empty cell somewhere, then
select that cell and click <copy. Then highlight all the cells (or
columns) that you want to change and click on Edit | Paste Special |
Values (check) | Divide (check) | OK then <Esc.

You can then delete the 100 from the first cell.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Pete, Thanks sooooo much that's awesome and it worked like a charm.
I'll add the step to the macro and voila! Thanks so much for your
help. E