& in headers
I understand that if you want "M&A" to appear in a header you have to enter
it as M&&A What's the logic here? What would you be concatenating in the header (or footer)? -- Brevity is the soul of wit. |
& in headers
Dave,
The & symbol is a concatenation operator only in a formula. In a header, it's just another text character. But since the various codes, such as &[Page] all begin with that character, when Excel sees & in a header, it thinks a code is on the way. It could have been smart enough to interpret a single & as just that, an ampersand. But it isn't. We just have to remember this as one of the Excel oddies, and put && when we want &. This may be fixed in the year 2057, I'm told. -- Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dave F" wrote in message ... I understand that if you want "M&A" to appear in a header you have to enter it as M&&A What's the logic here? What would you be concatenating in the header (or footer)? -- Brevity is the soul of wit. |
& in headers
The logic is that for headers and footers, '&' is an escape character,
not a concatenation operator. For instance: Printed at &[Time] Will print the current time for &[Time] In article , Dave F wrote: I understand that if you want "M&A" to appear in a header you have to enter it as M&&A What's the logic here? What would you be concatenating in the header (or footer)? |
& in headers
Thanks.
-- Brevity is the soul of wit. "JE McGimpsey" wrote: The logic is that for headers and footers, '&' is an escape character, not a concatenation operator. For instance: Printed at &[Time] Will print the current time for &[Time] In article , Dave F wrote: I understand that if you want "M&A" to appear in a header you have to enter it as M&&A What's the logic here? What would you be concatenating in the header (or footer)? |
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