I don't get it... I cannot make your suggest format pattern work on my
system... it keeps throwing away the comma leaving four # characters after
the decimal point.
Phew! I'm thought I was going crazy there for a moment.<g>
Yes, you get the display the OP wanted... for that number. The original
intention of your format pattern was to round to 3 decimal places maximum
and to include the thousands separator... after Excel changes the pattern,
numbers will be rounded to 4 decimal places maximum and there will be no
thousands separator in numbers large enough to warrant them.