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Best Answer Tomk , 31 May 2015 - 03:18 PM
Looks right to me. If you delete the equals sign (=) the formula would show in the cell as text - but of course there would be no equals sign showing. Other than that, the only way I know how to show the formula in the cell - complete with eq...
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Posted 31 May 2015 - 01:59 PM
I have this formula in a cell = COUNTIF(May!$E:$E,"o") when I attempt to change the "o" to "a" the formula displays in the cell as an actual formula
=COUNTIF(May!$E:$E,"a") displays in the cell but does not work.
Hope I make sense.
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Posted 31 May 2015 - 03:18 PM Best Answer
Looks right to me.
If you delete the equals sign (=) the formula would show in the cell as text - but of course there would be no equals sign showing.
Other than that, the only way I know how to show the formula in the cell - complete with equals sign - is to hold control and accent key (`). Formula would then continue to show until you click in the cell and hit Ctrl ` again.
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Posted 31 May 2015 - 03:25 PM
As it turned out it was the cell format, I changed to general and that allowed the change.
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