ot: dropping zeros - not the same

[Richard Kreiss]

One of my client's called and advised they are having trouble with an Excel
spreadsheet which lists their credits.  It appears that when the service
company transmits this to their customer in about 20% of credits loose a
zero.

Here is the odd part: -88.70 is received as -8.87

As was indicated to me, this only happens when the hundredths value is a
zero.

Any idea why this happening.  There service company has no idea.  The sheet
looks correct prior to e-mailing it to the service company.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net