Format B3 to general.
Press F2 in B3.
Press enter

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Jacob Skaria


"Jimmer" wrote:

Both cells C2 and B3 are formatted for text.
Cell C2 contains June 30, '
In cell B3 I type =C2
Instead of B3 containing June 30, it contains =C2
I often use the = command from one page to another as well as on the same
page of a worksheet. This has never happened before. Using Offfice 2007.