Nothing, it is probably because the spreadsheet was once created in Lotus
123 or the user started out with Lotus 123 and is still used to it

It won't do anything whatsoever.



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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"j" wrote in message
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I sometimes see other people's Excel formulas that have a reference with
=+A1

instead of
=A1

What does the plus sign do?

I can't find this anywhere.