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In Excel worksheets the semicolon is just another printable character. In
VB/VBA it has some special meanings like on Print # statements it is used to
stop the insertion of the new line character.



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Could be a separator in some Language Settings.

i.e. used in place of a comma.

=SUM(A1;B1;C1)


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