why use + sign in following formula? =+Q290*10
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why use + sign in following formula? =+Q290*10
On Oct 23, 5:36*pm, Sasser wrote:
It's a throwback to LOTUS 123 and is tolerated by Excel but serves no useful purpose. Simply use = Please remember in future to post your question in the body of the post and not the header. Mike |
why use + sign in following formula? =+Q290*10
Mike H wrote...
It's a throwback to LOTUS 123 and is tolerated by Excel but serves no useful purpose. Simply use = .... Does make one wonder why Excel can't strip it off since Excel does strip off unary + from numeric literals and Excel strips off @ chars before function names. |
why use + sign in following formula? =+Q290*10
Good point but I've always believed (probably incorrectly) that because =-A2
is valid (and sometimes useful) the positive variation is tolerated Mike "Harlan Grove" wrote: Mike H wrote... It's a throwback to LOTUS 123 and is tolerated by Excel but serves no useful purpose. Simply use = .... Does make one wonder why Excel can't strip it off since Excel does strip off unary + from numeric literals and Excel strips off @ chars before function names. |
why use + sign in following formula? =+Q290*10
Excel has automatically stripped it off (or changed it to "=") in
various versions. The Mac version still does it in more situations than the PC version, depending on what formula is entered. It has always seemed a bizarre thing to me to have changed this functionality over the years, or that it depends on what is entered. Did a programmer make a mistake? Leave something out from one version to another? Just weird. Also, it is much easier to type a + if you are used to using the 10key portion of the keyboard. Since MS couldn't be bothered to keep an = on the 10key. I think Apple still has it. |
why use + sign in following formula? =+Q290*10
No reason at all.
Looks like the originator is an old Lotus hand. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:36:01 -0700, Sasser wrote: |
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