Why don't the Mini Toolbar commands work with numerical values?

[Barbara Corio]

When I use the mini toolbar to change numerical values to Bold or Italics, it
appears to work. But then when I leave the cell, either by pressing Enter or
clicking on another cell, the applied formatting disappears. It works great
with text but does not seem to work with numbers.

 

[bman]

Have you checked to see if there any conditional formatting set? See Format
menu. XL03