Try
Tools|Options|Transition Tab|Uncheck "Transition formula evaluation"

If you're a plain old excel user, you may want to uncheck all those options.

If you've come from using Lotus 123 and like that behavior, then

=concatenate(Text(B7,"0"),Text(C7,"0"))
or just
=Text(B7,"0")&Text(C7,"0")

(use the number format that applies)

Pa Maher wrote:

XL 2003, example
B7 = 123456
B8 = 10
CONCATENTION works fine if I insert the ' in front of the number

"CLR" wrote:

The works fine for me in XL97...........what version are you
using, and what typical values do you have in B7 and C7?

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3


"Pa Maher" wrote in message
...
A report lists in 2 columns an account number and a sub-account number as
numeric fields.
I want to concantenate these fields. when I use "=CONCATENATE(B7,C7)" I
get
a #VALUE! error message. If I place a ' infront of the numbers in B7 and
C7
then it works fine. Is there any way to use the concantenate function
without inserting the ' infront of a few thousand fields? Changing the
cell
format to text has not worked.
Thanks




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Dave Peterson