Actually, I believe both CONCATENATE and ref&ref method work for all
number formats except TEXT. It sounds like your cells are formatted as
TEXT (FormatCellsNumber tabCategory: TEXT) which would return the
fomula and not it's returned value. Is that the case?

Regards,
Ron


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