8212.0011 is numeric and not text. You say are deleting a text character
from 8212.0011? What text character?



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"Trreborr09" wrote in message
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why would a value in a cell as shown here 8212.0011( return a value of
8212.00110000.00 when the ( character was deleted from the cell? The
version
of excel is 2007 and the os is XP. Is there a regional setting controlling
this?