Hi,

I've just started using Excel for Windows.

Initially, it interpreted every value I entered as a date.

I then went to format cells and tried everything, "text", "number", various "custom" settings. The only thing that changed was that whole numbers were correctly displayed, but numbers with decimals would come out as this huge number (e.g. I enter 1.25, it comes out as 4938) - which I assume is related to this dates as a sequence business in excel.

I just want to enter a column of numbers and add them up... basic, basic, and it's chomped an hour of my time so far.

Ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance,
Glitz.