cell displays formula instead of value

[viilis]

I accidently posted this in the wrong forum earlier...so here it is i
the correct place: a general question, I hope somebody has an answer.

Hello,

I have a weird problem in a workbook with two worksheets.
I want to display values in sheet2 that have been manually entered o
sheet1. The target where the data's supposed to be displayed are merge
cells

For example in A10:A18 of Sheet2 I entered
=Sheet1!B19

On A19:A37 of Sheet2:
=Sheet1!B20

and so forth.

However, instead of displaying the value of the reference, all cel
ranges in column A of sheet2 display the whole formula (=sheet1!...).
I have tried changing the number format of the cells, but this didn'
help.

Once (I can't remember how), I managed to get a value displaye
properly in one cell, so I copied it to the other cells. But as soon a
I tried to change the reference in the formula (i.e. from =Sheet1!B19 t
=Sheet1!B20), the only thing that gets displayed in the cell is th
formula.

What am I doing wrong

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
first check again that the cells are not formated as 'Text'. change
this format to 'General' or 'Number' and Re-enter your formula. If this
does not help goto 'Tools - Options - View' and make sure that
'Formulas' is NOT checked

 

[CarlosAntenna]

Switch between displaying formulas and their values on a worksheet
a.. Press CTRL + ` (grave accent).