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The cell type affects how the contents of the cell are displayed. The cell contains formatted and unformatted data.

The Text property contains the formatted data which is displayed in the cell; the Value property contains the unformatted data which is saved in the model. You can use the SheetView GetText and GetValue methods to obtain the contents of the cell, regardless of cell type. For more information about data methods and properties, refer to Placing and Retrieving Data.

The following table lists the editable cell types, and how each cell type works with the data, whether formatted (Text property) or unformatted (Value property).�

Editable Cell Type

Sample Input

Resultant (Text) Formatted Data

Resultant (Value) Unformatted Data

CurrencyCellType

"$10,000.00"

"$10,000.00"

10000.00

DateTimeCellType

"10/29/2002"

"10/29/2002"

DateTime object of Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:00:00 AM

DoubleCellType

"10000.00"

"10000.00"

10000.00

GeneralCellType

Any text

String of that data

Depends on whether DateTime, Boolean, or Text returns the DateTime object, the Boolean value or the Text value

IntegerCellType

"12345"

"12345"

12345

PercentCellType

"15%"

"15%"

0.15

RegExpCellType (Regular Expression)

"123-45-6789"

"123-45-6789"

"123-45-6789"

TextCellType

Any text

String of that text

String of that text

The DateTime cell returns data in the format of the FormatString property setting. In this example, the format string is set to "F".

If the cell's Multiline property is set to true, you can include a line feed character to include a line break when setting text.

Numbers are converted to scientific notation if they are greater than 999,999,999,999,999 or less than -999,999,999,999,999. Low fraction numbers are also converted to scientific notation.

The following table lists the graphical cell types, and how each cell type works with the data, whether formatted (Text property) or unformatted (Value property).�

Graphical Cell Type

Sample Input

Resultant (Text) Formatted Data

Resultant (Value) Unformatted Data

ButtonCellType

null

null

null

CheckBoxCellType

True (checked)

"True"

1

False (unchecked)

"False"

0

Not set; looks false

Empty string

Null

ComboBoxCellType

Any item

Text of selected item

Text of selected item or index of selected item

No item selected

Empty string

Null

HyperLinkCellType

Any text

String of that text

"True" (for visited link) or "False" (for not visited)

ImageCellType

LabelCellType

Any text

String of that text

String of that text

ListBoxCellType

Any item selected

Text of the selected item

Text of or index of selected item

MultiColumnComboBoxCellType Any item Text of selected item Text of selected item or index of selected item

RadioButtonListCellType

Any item selected

Text of the selected item

Text of or index of selected item

No item selected

Empty string

Null

Return to the overview at Understanding How Cell Types Work.

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