You mention positive and negative.

What problem are you having when you try to enter a
+50
OR
-100
into a Text *pre* formatted cell?

Isn't the minus sign good enough to symbolize a negative?

If you must use the slash, try the " \ " instead of " / ".
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HTH,

RD

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"Bonnie" wrote in message
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Yes, that does seem to work (thank you) but is there no other way?? ...it
seems ridiculous that when the text formatting specifically reads "the
cell
is desplayed exactly as entered." that it should do exactly that. Issue:
I
have to include this apostrophe trick in the instructions for completing
the
evaluation table--for all my users who are not Excel fans, and in a big
hurry!

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Precede the entry with an apostrophe '
it will not be visible in the cell/table


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"Bonnie" wrote in message
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I want to use + and / symbols as text (in a table to designate positive
or
negative evaluation), but formatting all cells in the document as
'text'
does
not keep Excel from recognizing them as computing functions. Here is
the
weird part. If I copy and paste a + or / character from a word
document,
it
will work, but I can't simply type + or / into the cell. Help???