XL changing General to Text format

**dominicb** · 08-13-2008, 03:48 AM

Good morning fleaster

...and welcome to the forum!!

Not sure what's causing this particular probelem - or ever even heard of it. You might want to post a cut down version of the spreadsheet so someone can take a look at it and perhaps come up with something.

As for your corrupted file, this post has a few suggestions :
http://www.excelforum.com/showthread.php?t=592569

HTH

DominicB

**fleaster** · 08-13-2008, 07:35 PM

thx for ur help Dominic - i tried to resave as html etc but without any effect... i think i'll just try and rebuild the file from scratch, but am still curious why the issue is occurring

...have attached a sample file of the problem if u wanted to have a geeze

thx mate!