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gordon_the_singer@officeformac.com - 02 May 2008 17:39 GMT

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I have changed the system preferences to UK Pound stirling however the xl currency changes my pound sign back to a dollar sign everytime I re-open ther spreadsheet?

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CyberTaz - 02 May 2008 19:34 GMT

Hi Gordon -

I believe this is a known issue which is currently being worked on.
Hopefully the anticipated update [No, I have no idea when:-)] will include
the fix.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 5/2/08 12:39 PM, in article ee9a5f1.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"gordon_the_singer@officeformac.com" <gordon_the_singer@officeformac.com>
wrote:

> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
>
> I have changed the system preferences to UK Pound stirling however the xl
> currency changes my pound sign back to a dollar sign everytime I re-open ther
> spreadsheet?

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deb moser - 03 May 2008 00:24 GMT

bought my xls as a spanish default. the arguments (calculations) seem to look for commas (not periods) when performing calculations. how do I change the default calculations?

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Bob Greenblatt - 05 May 2008 13:12 GMT

On 5/2/08 7:24 PM, in article ee9a5f1.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "deb moser
" <> wrote:

> bought my xls as a spanish default. the arguments (calculations) seem to look
> for commas (not periods) when performing calculations. how do I change the
> default calculations?

Excel gets this information from the system preferences. Change them there
and then quit and restart Excel.

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