inserted cells retain formating

palmam

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I'm attempting to insert the exact copy of a cell reference into another cell which contains text. The problem I'm having is that the cell is displayed, but not in the same format. For example b2 is formated as a % and is displayed as 5%. I would like to have b2 displayed in say cell a1 as 5%, ihowever, it is displayed as "bonus equals .05 (this is cell b2)". I was under the impresion that the cell and it's formating is displayed in the exact fashion.

Thanks in advance
 

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Does this work?

="bonus equals " & TEXT(B2, "0.0%")
 
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