hey everyone, i am pretty clueless when it comes to excel so I hope this
question makes sense or is possible

I am making an excel spreadsheet for the upcoming World Cup and have a
question...is it possible to have the text someone enters in a cell
show up in a completely different cell?

for instance, players will pick two teams to advance from each
group...say they put Mexico in cell D4....can the word Mexico
automatically show up in a different cell from a forumla, say J9? so
if someone different entered USA, then in their bracket USA would end
up in that cell...

make sense?


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upper90 Wrote:
hey everyone, i am pretty clueless when it comes to excel so I hope this
question makes sense or is possible

I am making an excel spreadsheet for the upcoming World Cup and have a
question...is it possible to have the text someone enters in a cell
show up in a completely different cell?

for instance, players will pick two teams to advance from each
group...say they put Mexico in cell D4....can the word Mexico
automatically show up in a different cell from a forumla, say J9? so
if someone different entered USA, then in their bracket USA would end
up in that cell...

make sense?
Entirely... Simply type =D4 in cell J9. Note that if you add
parentheses Excel will consider this a formula and will return a value
of 0 for any non-value content.


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upper90 Wrote:
hey everyone, i am pretty clueless when it comes to excel so I hope this
question makes sense or is possible

I am making an excel spreadsheet for the upcoming World Cup and have a
question...is it possible to have the text someone enters in a cell
show up in a completely different cell?

for instance, players will pick two teams to advance from each
group...say they put Mexico in cell D4....can the word Mexico
automatically show up in a different cell from a forumla, say J9? so
if someone different entered USA, then in their bracket USA would end
up in that cell...

make sense?

Entirely... Simply type =D4 in cell J9. Note that if you add
parentheses Excel will consider this a formula and will return a value
of 0 for any non-value content.

And in what way is that different from what happens without the parentheses?

If you want the result blank until there's an entry in the cell, try
=IF(D4="","",D4)
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David Biddulph Wrote:
"ArenaNinja"
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upper90 Wrote:
hey everyone, i am pretty clueless when it comes to excel so I hope
this
question makes sense or is possible

I am making an excel spreadsheet for the upcoming World Cup and have
a
question...is it possible to have the text someone enters in a cell
show up in a completely different cell?

for instance, players will pick two teams to advance from each
group...say they put Mexico in cell D4....can the word Mexico
automatically show up in a different cell from a forumla, say J9?
so
if someone different entered USA, then in their bracket USA would
end
up in that cell...

make sense?

Entirely... Simply type =D4 in cell J9. Note that if you add
parentheses Excel will consider this a formula and will return a
value
of 0 for any non-value content.

And in what way is that different from what happens without the
parentheses?

If you want the result blank until there's an entry in the cell, try
=IF(D4="","",D4)
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David Biddulph
Sorry.. I didn't explain myself well enough. I meant to say that if the
value is not a numerical one but an alphanumerical one or any other
type, Excel will return 0.


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David Biddulph Wrote:
"ArenaNinja"
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upper90 Wrote:
hey everyone, i am pretty clueless when it comes to excel so I hope
this
question makes sense or is possible

I am making an excel spreadsheet for the upcoming World Cup and have
a
question...is it possible to have the text someone enters in a cell
show up in a completely different cell?

for instance, players will pick two teams to advance from each
group...say they put Mexico in cell D4....can the word Mexico
automatically show up in a different cell from a forumla, say J9?
so
if someone different entered USA, then in their bracket USA would
end
up in that cell...

make sense?

Entirely... Simply type =D4 in cell J9. Note that if you add
parentheses Excel will consider this a formula and will return a
value
of 0 for any non-value content.

And in what way is that different from what happens without the
parentheses?

Sorry.. I didn't explain myself well enough. I meant to say that if the
value is not a numerical one but an alphanumerical one or any other
type, Excel will return 0.

For me it will return the alphanumeric value from D4, whether there are
parentheses or not.
= D4 and =(D4) give me the same result.
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