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Bob Phillips

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"Concrete Guy" <Concrete wrote in message
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I am getting formula formatted as =RC[-3]+RC[-1] when simple Row and
Column
references is what I desire to see. I don't know how to interpret the
formula
as shown when I select that cell. I type in the typical Row/Cell location
but
it gets displayed as above. an anyone help????