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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Brevity is the soul of wit.

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.
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Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com
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"Dave F" wrote in message
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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.

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)?

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)?