Thanks, Ron. I was using the formulaic REPLACE. The more standard one you
pointed me to did the trick!

Regards,

Adetola.

"Ron Coderre" wrote in message
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Try this:

Select the cells to be impacted

From the Excel main menu:
<edit<replace
Find what: =
Replace with: (leave this blank)
Click the[Replace All] button

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Adetola Obembe" wrote:

I've copied a list of English suffixes ("-able", "-ation") etc. into a
row
of my Excel worksheet.
However, because the web-page table I copied them from has prefixed(!)
each
suffix with the equals sign, I'm getting the error #NAME? in each cell.
When
I click on the cell, I can see its contents, but not otherwise. I've
tried
using the replace function, but for the result I get, for instance:

=-able+REPLACE("'='",1,1,"''")

Can you help?

Regards,

Adetola Obembe.