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Excel on Android - numeric keypad
Most of my data entry in Excel is numeric, and I really like to choose the dedicated keyboard for number entry. There are three minor issues: Sometimes when I go back to Excel after a while it h...
I'd like to follow up on this and ask how I can format a cell so that the numeric keyboard pops up when I go to enter a value. (I'm assuming that what "auto-surfacing the number keyboard based on cell formatting" means.) Thanks!
Siddharth_Vora
Microsoft
Microsoftblueskies you can format the cell as numeric, currency, date, time, datetime.
In that case double tapping the cell to edit should bring up the numeric keyboard.
That would make sense! Unfortunately it doesn't happen consistently that cells formatted for number default to the number keyboard. Maybe it's an android bug.
Thanks!