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how do I turn off automatic truncation of long numbers in excel?



 
 
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Old August 7th, 2009, 04:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
paul n
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Old August 8th, 2009, 12:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.setup
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Default how do I turn off automatic truncation of long numbers in excel?

Excel has a 15 significant digits limitation on numbers.

Precede the long number with an apostrophe.

This makes the number text and cannot be used for calculations.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

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