Is either A1 formatted as Text or the cell with the formula formatted as
text. If so, format them as general. Then re-enter the formula.

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

mac wrote in message
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I have a one column which has printable/special character in each cell.
When I try to use =clean(a1), nothing happens. It just print =clean(a1)
in
b1. I tried F9 to recalc. but nothing is happening.

Any suggestion?

Thanks.