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I have a user who keeps seeing the ^ symbol in his Excel cells and he wants
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It indicates exponentiation, e.g., 2^3 = (2*2*2) = 8

See XL's Help ("Calculation operators in formulas") for more

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I have a user who keeps seeing the ^ symbol in his Excel cells and he wants
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On Aug 28, 10:30 am, Plasticman wrote:
I have a user who keeps seeing the ^ symbol in his Excel cells and he wants
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I thought it was "to the power" for exponential functions.

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"JE McGimpsey" wrote:

It indicates exponentiation, e.g., 2^3 = (2*2*2) = 8

See XL's Help ("Calculation operators in formulas") for more

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I have a user who keeps seeing the ^ symbol in his Excel cells and he wants
to know what it means.

Thanks,

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