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Old 11-06-2017, 11:43 AM
joeu2004 joeu2004 is offline Windows 7 32bit Office 2007
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Originally Posted by Jo Freeman View Post
to be honest, some of the discussion was way too complicated for me to understand!
And not at all relevant to your problem.

The take away is....

1. You are right: format the cell as Text first, then enter the long "number" as text.

2. Do not try to use the long "number" in an arithmetic expression; you will lose accuracy. I don't think you would: I presume the long "number" is actually an ID.
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