How to prevent Excel rounding numbers or adding redundant 0's?
- by Highly Irregular
I have a column of numbers that appear like this:
but the actual value of the shown cell is 20130.153334
Other values have a different number of decimal places. I don't want to add redundant 0's, so I can't just specify a particular number of decimal places to display. I really just want to treat the values as text.
I have already changed the format of the cell to Text, as the description for Text is: "Text format cells are treated as text even when a number is in the cell. The cell is displayed exactly as entered.". However, it clearly isn't being displayed exactly as entered! Strangely, if I hit F2 on the cell to go into edit mode, then hit enter, it is then displayed correctly. I can't do this manually for 2000+ records though!
How can I prevent the numbers being rounded?