You obviously don't have very much experience with other software. XL
has bugs, but there are far more worthy candidates for your hyperbole.

Take a look at "About custom number formats" in XL Help.


In article <1118155818.587107.23160@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
"aaron.kempf@gmail.com" <aaron.kempf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Excel doesnt work.
>
> I mean-- i have a column with mixed large numbers; and excel keeps on
> rendering it as scientific notation.. i mean-- wtf is up with Excel; it
> is like the most buggy program ever written