Formulas not evaluated, Formulas treated as strings
Folks,
Here's the solution to a nasty user-induced 'bug' that ranks up there with my having spent three hours bird dogging why my commands were not working on an old IBM 370 mainframe in 1975 -- I had 'set uplow' during the session, and my commands were lower case as I keyed them, no longer in upper case as I had been accustomed to having the system do automatically for me. A user had a spreadsheet whose 1) numbers were left justified, not right justified as is normal 2) formulas beginning with an '=' sign were treated as strings and not evaluated. In this case, check: 1. the format of the cells. the user's were 'Text', not 'General'. So of course they'll be treated as text. 2. Tools Options, Error Checking tab. There is a setting to treat numbers as text. Clear that. 3. Compounding this was an incorrect reference to a merged cell. If cells on sheet A1 are merged, use =A1!C3, not =A1!C3:F3. -- Bob Sullentrup |
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