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Ivan inputs a phone number into cell A2 of an Excel workbook. He formats the cell using a phone number format: (555) 987-6543. Ivan copies cell A2 into a new workbook. What will be displayed in the new workbook, and why?

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The same format is retained. The reason being that parenthesis '(" were introduced at the beginning or prior to the numeric input. This will make excel consider the input data as General Data or in General Format

The display when copied is (555) 987-6543
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