>>>Can someone refresh my memory:
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>>>I have a class property, I want to put in "1.00" (i.e. a string) as its value. If I type in 1.00, it's set to be a numeric. How would I enter the string "1.00" in this case?
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>>Try
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>>= "1.00" or set in run-time.
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>I just discovered that myself a few seconds ago. It seems a little inelegant. I was hoping there might be a trick like typing a single quote ' before a number (like in Excel) to indicate that whatever follows is to be treated as a string.

Not really - there seems to be no additional tricks.