Maybe your cell containing the formula is formatted as Text. Use Format
| Cells | Number (tab) and choose General. Then double-click the cell
as if to edit it in order to activate the change in format.

Hope this helps.

Pete

Courie wrote:

I have tried all of your suggestions--Thanks, by the way--but each of them
simply prints the verbiage of the function, not the result.

What could I be doing wrong?
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Thanks,

Courie


"daddylonglegs" wrote:

Another way is to use

="XYZ company will pay "&DOLLAR(Sheet2!A1)&" of your shipping costs"

"Courie" wrote:

Is there a way to insert a formula or reference a cell on another worksheet
in the middle of a text string.

For example if I wanted to say: XYZ company will pay $___________ of your
shipping costs... Where the blank was a reference from another sheet.
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Thanks,

Courie