Hit Ctrl ` (the key to the left of "1"). You probably hit it by mistake
before.


"John" wrote in message
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All of a sudden some of my new formulas are appearing as the cell content
instead of the content being the value of the formula. Specifically, I
have
several report sheets that show data from a database table range
referenced
by cell named 'dedb' that look like:

=IF(VLOOKUP(dewono,INDIRECT(dedb),COLUMN(contact), FALSE)<"",VLOOKUP(dewono,INDIRECT(dedb),COLUMN(co ntact),FALSE),"__________")

I added a new column in my database range called tcontact and named to,
but
when I copy the above formula to a cell to reference the new column, it
does
not evaluate. It just shows:

=IF(VLOOKUP(dewono,INDIRECT(dedb),COLUMN(tcontact) ,FALSE)<"",VLOOKUP(dewono,INDIRECT(dedb),COLUMN(t contact),FALSE),"__________")

What's going on here? I do have over 500 named ranges in my workbook, and
the workbook file is around 700KB, but I wouldn't think I was running out
of
room or resources.

Appreciate your help.