The "+" can be omitted.
IIRC, it's a carry over habit for ex-Lotus users
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"Brian" wrote in message
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This might seem like an odd question but I have not been able to find the
answer before.

I have been getting sent quite a lot of spreadsheets and it has formula in
it that look something like this:

=+A2*A3

If I was doing this formula I would miss out the + sign, what does the
plus
sign in this formula actually do.

Thanks for any info...