Thanks, Susan, Glad to have been able to help! All the best, Cearbhall T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Susan Curry Sent: 18 September 2011 10:59 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: excel hi Cearbhall , that's sorted, sorry for taking so long to get back to you i was away for a few days, any how that done the trick and i've saved you email for future reference. many thanks susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cearbhall O'Meadhra" <omeadhrac@xxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 3:39 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: excel Dear Susan, Another useful trick is to copy the good cell down from the row above to the damaged cell. That will bring the format back to what it should be. You can then type in the correct price and it should be OK. All the best, Cearbhall T: +353 (0)1 6364364 m: 08333 23487 E: omeadhrac@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: 11 September 2011 13:51 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: excel Susan, maybe, autoformat... which is in the Format submenu. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 11:59 AM Subject: [vip_students] excel Hi folks, Using jaws 10 with windows xp. I use excel to keep my household accounts, I use column a, for the name of the bought item, column b, for the date of purchase. then column c, for the price of the item. well by accident I put the date in to the price column and now I am unable to put in the price Colum, when I deleted the date from the price column then try to put in the price the date keeps coming up instead of the price. for instance, if I try to put £19 in the price column it comes up with the 19th Jan. this only happens in the cell on that row I made the mistake, the cells above and below are fine. I do hope this all makes sense to somebody. can you help me sort this out it would save me a lot of work typing the whole lot out again. best wishes Susan -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1762 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message