Excel changes decimal

[davidcay]

Newly installed Office 2008 for Mac inserts decimal, for example, 17
becomes 1.7. How to fix?

 

[Mike H]

Hi,

I don't know where it is in Excel 2008 but in 2003 you go

Tools|Option|Edit
and un-check fixed decimal places so I guess you might look in Help for
Fixed Decimal Places and try that.

Mike

 

[davidcay]

On 2008 there is NO such listing under tools and putting "fixed
decimal" in help returns "no results.

Ayone else?

 

[Spiky]

On 2008 there is NO such listing under tools and putting "fixed
decimal" in help returns "no results.

Ayone else?

Options in Excel is called Preferences on a Mac and should be under
the application menu. That is the menu called "Excel" in this case.
Also usually accessible with "CMD-,". That's the Command key (also
known as Apple key) and comma.

I don't have 2008 and don't trust Microsoft to match conventions, so I
can't be sure of all this.