Sheet does not respond to format changes

TPFKAS

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Hi there,

I'v got this realy weird situation that one specific sheet in a workbook that does not respond anymore to changes in the format.

Here's a screenshot of sheet 1 in the workbook. The cell A1 contains the time 16:50:00. The cell is formatted to show time in hh.mm and this works fine.

Blad1.jpg


Next a screenshot of sheet 2 in the workbook. Again A1 contains 16:50:00, the cells is formated hh:mm, but the cell actually shows a number.

Blad2.jpg



Does anyone have a clue what's going on here? This behaviour is the same for any cell in sheet 2. I have tried changing formatting back and forth but I can't get any cell in sheet 2 to show time-formatted data.

The problem is that this behaviour randomly seems to appear in an application that I designed and is used extensively in our sportsclub. Once it shows up, there is no way that I can't correct it anymore. :-(

Thanks in advance!
 
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Excel Facts

VLOOKUP to Left?
Use =VLOOKUP(A2,CHOOSE({1,2},$Z$1:$Z$99,$Y$1:$Y$99),2,False) to lookup Y values to left of Z values.
Make sure that the cell is not conditional formatted so show the other format.
 
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I found the problem.
It happens when by accident Ctrl-t is pressed. This is used to for displaying formula's and apparently this disables showing formats for times & dates.
 
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