Change Value to Formula

excelbanker

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I'm working with an excel add-in to communicate with Oracle (essbase/smartview add-in). When the add-in refreshes it removes all hard-keyed values, but will not remove any formulas. When I want values to remain I have to manually make them into a formula (e.g. =1000+1-1) so they will remain on a refresh. Is there any workaround to more easily convert existing values to some sort of formula? This would save me tons of time.

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Found a decent work around. Enter +1-1 into a cell and then "copy, paste special, add" on all of the value cells. This will create a formula within the call and won't change the value.
 
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