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Excel on Android - numeric keypad
MicrosoftThank you for the feedback!
Can you check this on the latest Beta build?
We have included auto-surfacing the number keyboard based on cell formatting.
We will look into the other feedbacks.
Good day,
I'm using Excel 1.0.1 (16.0.11601.20074) on Lenovo TB3-730x very often every day.
My question is: is it possible to permanently disable the switching between the various keyboard based on cell formatting, since for me this auto-surfacing is counterproductive: the Hacker's Keyboard, the default keyboard I'm using, already has all the necessary letters and numbers I need.
Thanks for your reply.
- Very frustrating! Now I'm trying to type in a string and it keeps bringing me the numbers keyboard. I can't change the keyboard back to alphanumeric.
Microsoft should include a user setting to enable or disable this featureNot brilliant, but probably the best solution available: -
Click on the cell.
Click on the Home > Number Format icon (Fifth icon along the Home ribbon on my tablet)
At the bottom of this drop-down menu, click on "Text".
The cell will now be formatted as text, and the keyboard will be the alphanumeric one.
(To get the numeric keyboard back, click on a cell, then Number Format > whatever takes your fancy.)
- Hi, I've followed your instructions but it didn't work at all. If a cell has the numeric keyboard, changing the cell info to "text" just alters the details in the cell. It makes no difference to the keyboard at all.
