On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:57:15PM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> Well, that's only part what I was trying to tell you. But let me put a
> finer point on it.
>
> Let's say you have a column which has a few numbers already entered in
> general numeric format (behaves like numbers). Then you select the
> entire column and change the numeric format to text. The numbers
> already there continue to behave like numbers. But if you go to one of
> those cells and re-enter the number, when you hit enter, the contents of
> that cell (although it appears no different) will now behave like text.
> What I said was that numeric text formatting does NOT affect data
> already there, but IS applied to any new entry, even the same ascii entry.
>
'Kay.
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