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Excel Default Style Multiplies Numbers by 1,000

Tags: Microsoft, Excel, Standard 2003
Got a real nuisance of a problem here, we got a machine here with excel installed, and everytime the user goes into excel and starts a new workbook, any numbers he types gets multiplied by 1,000.

For example

2 turns into 2000 as soon as you leave the box.

I have looked everywhere and there is no way to change this, its such a tiny annoying little problem.

The only way to fix it temporarily is to physically change the cell formats to custom with the code

#,

This sets all numbers back to their normal format.

Can anyone help please?
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Zone: Software
Question Asked By: recruitit
Solution Provided By: rorya
Participating Experts: 2
Solution Grade: A
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