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Dave Peterson Dave Peterson is offline
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Default Excel formulas to show expanded nesting

Excel will allow you to use alt-enters in your formulas--don't put them inside
strings (between ""'s).

And it forgives extra spaces between arguments.

I could use:
=IF($B26="",
"",
ROUNDUP(
INDEX(
Refs!I:I,MATCH(
$M26,Refs!H:H,0))*K26,0))


(Yep, I had difficulty seeing what you wanted.)

And remember that in xl97-xl2003, your formulas cannot exceed 1024 characters
(when measured in R1C1 reference style.)



DasVimble wrote:

With my poor vision I have a hard time seeing the structure in a formula I am
writing or modifying. The built-in tools are useful, but I would like an
option to toggle the formula from this:

=IF($B26="","",ROUNDUP(INDEX(Refs!I:I,MATCH($M26,R efs!H:H,0))*K26,0))

to something like this:

=IF(.............................................. .................................................. .............................)

$B26="","",ROUNDUP(............................... .........................................*K26,0)

INDEX(............................................ ...............)

Refs!I:I,MATCH(.............................)

$M26,Refs!H:H,0

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