OR ...
Change your Conditional formula to:
="0"
*IF* you really want the characters to remain as text.
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HTH,
RD
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Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit!
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Hi
the reason for this is that thie formula returns a string and not a
numeric value. Change the formula to:
=--mid(text(a1;"0000000000.00");1;1)