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I sometimes see other people's Excel formulas that have a reference with
=+A1
instead of
=A1
What does the plus sign do?
I can't find this anywhere.
=+A1
instead of
=A1
What does the plus sign do?
I can't find this anywhere.
Sandy Mann said:My theory is that it's a hold over from users of Lotus 123
When I was at work we had a secretary who habitually wrote formulas like
that. I asked her if she originally started using Lotus and she replied,
"What is Lotus?" She said that it just felt right to write it that way.
I think that it may be related to the other thing that newcomers do in
that they tend to write =SUM(A1+B1) because they feel that you have to
coerce XL into performing a calculation.
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Jon Peltier said:I've seen new users who thought they had to click that big Sigma button to
start a formula. It puts =SUM() into the cell, and the user puts whatever
formula they want inside the parentheses.
- Jon
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