1 A major precursor to the Civil War, this controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision denied citizenship and basic rights to all blacks -- whether slave or free.2  Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). 3  This decision allowed the use of separate but equal racially segregated accommodations and facilities. In this case, the Court held that sex discrimination consisting of same-sex sexual harassment can form the basis for a valid claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
When we begin the lesson, we'll use a Custom format string, in conjunction with the TEXT function, to apply the Custom format string to a numerical value. Here's the excerpt from the Essential Skills video. Zeros mean: display significant zeros. You tell Excel how many you want, within the format string.
If you need to convert to or from a string representation of a value in a format other than the one specified by your locale, you cannot use the Visual Basic type conversion functions. To do this, use the ToString(IFormatProvider) and Parse(String, IFormatProvider) methods of that value's type. For example, use Double.Parse when converting a string to a Double, and use Double.ToString when converting a value of type Double to a string.