Linking cells from tab to tab

[Guest]

I've been working on this masive workbook and have many linking cells frm tab
to tab.

Then, for no reason (that I know of), the link formula froz.

I entered:
Master!E2 and hit enter. Instead of populating the cell with the number in
the "master" tab under E2, it just kept the formula visable in the cell.

Meaning in the actual cell, without clicking in it, it reads "Master!E2"

Any idea why it's not accepting the formula??

Thanks, Bonnie

 

[Guest]

Sounds as if the cell has been formatted for TEXT. Select the cell that's
displaying the formula and format the cell with the numeric format of your
choice. Then, with the cell pointer still at the formula cell, press F2 to
activate cell edit and then press enter. The formula should now display the
results and not the actual formula.

 

[RagDyer]

Some possibilities:

First of all,. I assume you *do* have an = sign in front of your formula ...
right?

Other then that, you may be in "Formula View" mode.
<Tools> <Options> <View> tab,
And *Uncheck* "Formulas" under Window Options.

Also, you might have the cell containing the formula formatted to Text
*before* you entered the link formula.

Click in the cell, hit <Ctrl> <Shift> < ~ >,
Then <F2>, then <Enter>.

If you have a large number of cells to fix,
Select them, then:
<Edit> <Replace>
In Find What, enter
=
In Replace With, enter
=
Click on <Replace All>

This gives you working formulas, but the cells are still Text.
While they're all still selected,
<Format> <Cells> Number> tab,
and click on General or Number.

 

[Guest]

Thank you Kevin! It was formated for text. I thought it needed to be
because there was going to be text in the field, but because it was a linking
formula, I realize in needs to be in numeric format.

Thanks so much again!!!!