If it's only one workbook, I'd strongly suspect you have an event macro
running (in your ThisWorkbook code module), though why it would be set
up to do that, I don't know.

The only other way I know of to accomplish that transformation is to
highlight the 900/3 and press F9...

Don't know anything about "pages" - newsgroups don't have them and most
newsreaders don't display in pages. But you're probably reading news via
a much clunkier web portal...


In article ,
Sandy wrote:

The entry +2*5*3 yields the correct result of 30. The problem is when I
click on the cell I cannot see my original entry - instead it shows =10*3.
The entry +900/3*4 returns the correct result of 1200, however, when I click
on the cell it shows =300*4. Any entry with only 2 components works fine.
This is the only workbook that does this, however, it does it on all sheets.
As an accountant, in Excel, I have always used the + sign instead of the =
sign because it is so much faster and more intuitive.

I am sorry about posting on 2 different boards. The first posting was
already on page 3, and the only response was a question, which I had then
answered, and figured had probably been forgotten.