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More than 15 digits in excel cell it turns them to zeros.  Fix?

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Lisa - 24 Aug 2006 16:28 GMT
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 - 24 Aug 2006 16:41 GMT
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

> 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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