additional plus sign

[Guest]

Can anyone help me figure this out? Sometimes when you have a formula in a
cell.
And you click back on the formula in the formula bar, it shows ie. =+F5-C3.
What does that plus sign represent between the = and the first cell reference?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Formulas in Lotus 123 were sometimes started with +'s. It's a holdover from a
former Lotus user. Doesn't help and just clutters the formula in excel.

 

[Guest]

It does nothing:

=F5-C3
is the same as
=+F5-C3
is the same as
=++++++++++++F5-C3

 

[Guest]

Thank you both for your repsonses.