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Dean
 
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I need to use an equal sign as a constant and get an #Value error. I have
preceeded the equal sign with a single quote ' and surrounded it with double
quotes but still get the error. Any ideas???
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Like in a cell by itself.

Either preformat the cell as text, then type: =

or type:
'=
(notice the leading apostrophe. It forces excel to treat the entry as text.)



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I need to use an equal sign as a constant and get an #Value error. I have
preceeded the equal sign with a single quote ' and surrounded it with double
quotes but still get the error. Any ideas???


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Maybe try a leading SPACE before the equal sign...........

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I need to use an equal sign as a constant and get an #Value error. I have
preceeded the equal sign with a single quote ' and surrounded it with

double
quotes but still get the error. Any ideas???



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