instead of typing =, you can use ctrl+a. Other than that you are sol.

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Incoherent" wrote in message
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How can you change this back to "=" instead of the fx.
The boneheaded stupidity of having to select from the formula select popup
when I want to reference a cell instead is infuriating me beyond belief.
I am an advanced user and therefore set in my ways, my upgrade path stops
at
Office 2000 if this is not fixable. Manually typing "=" is not an
acceptable
solution.