formula displayed, not calculated

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm working on a sheet with a couple of others and something happened in
such away that formulas I enter are not calculated but displayed as formulas.

So formulas allready there are calculated but new ones are not. I've tried
CTRL + `
but no luck with that.

I've the basis =C1 to point to the value C1 and let it show up. On some
sheets this works, on others it doesn't. Also on the sheet where this works,
I cannot get a value from another sheet.

Any ideas??

 

[Pete_UK]

You probably have the cells formatted as text, so what might appear to
be =C1 is actually "=C1". You need to format the cells as general, and
then double-click (as if you are editting) or press F2 to get Excel to
recognise the new format.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Guest]

Thanx, that worked. I should have found that myself, ashamed)

 

[Dave Peterson]

Excel likes to help.

Try this on a test worksheet.
Select A1 and hit ctrl-; (to put the date in the cell)
now select B1 and type: =a1

Notice that excel changed the format of B1 to match the format in A1.

Now format D1 as Text.
put ASDF in D1
put =D1 in E1
You see ASDF.

With E1 selected, hit the F2 key and then enter (to pretend that you're changing
the formula).

Excel has "helped" you by changing that cell's format to text.

I don't know of any way of changing this behavior.

I just select the cell, and reformat it to General (or whatever I wanted). I
hit F2 and then enter (to reenter that formula).

Sometimes this feature is nice, sometimes it ain't.

 

[Pete_UK]

Thanks for feeding back, glad it worked for you.

Pete