Far as I know, it was removed in xl2002 and later and you can't restore it.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Erik Creyghton" wrote in message
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Previous Excel versions showed an equal sign button in front of the
formula
insert button on the Excel formula bar. In Excel 2003 only the formula
insert button is present.

I found the old version very usefull, is there a way to change the toolbar
back to the old layout ?

kind regards,
Erik