Question: Help With Excel - Weird Squares - Help!? I'm pretty decent with Excel, but all of a sudden, I have weird squares in place of where the decimal points used to be.  Anybody have this before?  What can I do?   The rest of the numbers in the cell are unaffected.  This happened to all of my Excel documents.  Is this a virus with my font?\n\nIt looks like:\n\n67@889\n812@45\n3@90\n\n\n@ = square

Answer: It would be interesting to know if the square behaves like a decimal point - that would mean the following would be likely to solve the problem...\nThis is for W2K,  XP may be slightly different..\n\nStart - Settings - Control Panel - Regional options - Numbers\nThe entry against "Decimal Symbol" should be a . but I suspect you'll find a square here.  Change it to a dot, then click apply.\n\nIf it's not a square, change it to something else, then back to a dot, then click apply.\n\nHope this works.  I was just able to replicate your symptoms on my PC this way, so I'm feeling lucky.
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