What do these characters mean?
 

Hi
the dollar signs indicate an absolute reference. See:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/relative.htm

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany


simsjr wrote:
Ok, I get the following cell formula when I paste a link to a cell in
another tab. It looks like this:

='Example Tab'!$L$8

What I'd like to know is what the exclamation point and dollar signs
mean. Why can't Excel just do something like this instead?

='Example Tab'L8

Can anyone help?