Beth
Excel will only display numbers to 15 digits, any additional ones are
displayed as zeroes. Normally the need for more is for credit card numbers
or part numbers on which no calculations will be needed. Therefore you can
treat these as text, either...
1) Format the cell(s) as text
2) Prefix the data with a single apostrophe '. This will not show, but will
be treated as text

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Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
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> When copying some numbers from our intranet or from a .txt
> file, Excel often changes the end of the numbers or
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> long, it doesn't work. Does anyone know of any option in
> Excel that I need to change that will help?