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A Cure for the Excel 2008 EURO symbol bug

by Moose - 16 May 2008

So, I posted a couple days ago about a really annoying bug where Excel 2008 documents with celles formatted using the € currency get "converted" to $ when you close and reopen them.

Well, I sort of found a cure. A workaround really... Well, two actually.

1) Simply save your document using the .xsl format instead of the default new .xlsx format and the problem goes away. Or,

2) instead of using the Format Cell menu option then choosing Currency and €, simply use the € icon in the formatting toolbar, or use the Financial cell format (that's what the € icon does). It does almost the same as the € "currency" format, simply adding a space between the number and the symbol...

Don't you love M$ products?

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