ozgrid, I think you may have missed the "(" from the question.
I believe that there may be custom formatting applied to the cell.
Try changing the format to number with the number of decimal places you wish
to see.


"ozgrid.com" wrote:

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



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Regards
Dave Hawley
www.ozgrid.com
"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?