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For the life of me I don't know how to change a formula in a cell i.e.
=A1 + D4 which will give a final value to show the actual values for A1
& D4 i.e. 2 + 4 = 6 and show this equation in the cell itself. Is this
possible?

It's for a school project for my son who's 10yo.

Can anyone help please?

Cheers from downunder - Melbourne.

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pnorgate Wrote:
For the life of me I don't know how to change a formula in a cell i.e.
=A1 + D4 which will give a final value to show the actual values for A1
& D4 i.e. 2 + 4 = 6 and show this equation in the cell itself. Is this
possible?

It's for a school project for my son who's 10yo.

Can anyone help please?

Cheers from downunder - Melbourne.

Pasha

Hi pnogate,

Just put an apostrophe ' before the equals sign

'=A1 + D4

oldchippy :)


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Yes I tried that but that will give me only the references in that cell
like =G4+F3 but what I would like to show is the actual value of G4 &
F3 in the formula so it would read either =4+3 or better still show the
answer as well like 7=4+3


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Thanks for that however it is still not quite what I am looking to
achieve.
Imagine a table with rows and columns like in a scool book but instead
of just showing the answer as below I want to show the formula as
values - see second table below what I mean.


Table 1
+ 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6


Table 2
+ 1 2 3
1 1+1=2 1+2=3 1+3=4
2 2+1=3 2+2=4 2+3=5
3 3+1=4 3+2=5 3+3=6


Can anyone help please?

Cheers,

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This does the trick

=TEXT(B1,"#")&" + "& TEXT(A2,"#")&" = "&B1+A2

Mike

pnorgate wrote:
Thanks for that however it is still not quite what I am looking to
achieve.
Imagine a table with rows and columns like in a scool book but instead
of just showing the answer as below I want to show the formula as
values - see second table below what I mean.


Table 1
+ 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6


Table 2
+ 1 2 3
1 1+1=2 1+2=3 1+3=4
2 2+1=3 2+2=4 2+3=5
3 3+1=4 3+2=5 3+3=6


Can anyone help please?

Cheers,

Pasha


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Perfect!!!

Many many thx to all that contributed and I hope it will prove helpful
to anyone else stuck on "school work".

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