Concatenate function WON'T concatenate!! Why?

mobius

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Hi, Folks! Hope someone can help me!

Am trying to use concatenate function to two cells - the results in the function dialog box are correct as I select cells to apply the fucntion to - BUT when I click OK, the results cell contains the formula and NOT the result. I'm seeing the same thing attempting other text functions, as well!

Can anyone give me an idea of why this behavior is happening? Anyone else experienced such a thing?

Thanks for your assistance!!

CR
 

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On 2002-03-04 11:18, mobius wrote:
Hi, Folks! Hope someone can help me!

Am trying to use concatenate function to two cells - the results in the function dialog box are correct as I select cells to apply the fucntion to - BUT when I click OK, the results cell contains the formula and NOT the result. I'm seeing the same thing attempting other text functions, as well!

Can anyone give me an idea of why this behavior is happening? Anyone else experienced such a thing?

Thanks for your assistance!!

CR

Try:

Tools/Options/View then check to see if the Formulas box is checked, it shouldn't be.

Any help
 
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Ian: Thanks, but no good so far - my box is unchecked :) ... the problem seems to be with macros embedded in the spreadsheet. I notice that any .xls's with macros exhibit the inability to run functions!

I'm trying to see if anyone else is seeing the same nonsense.
 
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On 2002-03-04 13:07, mobius wrote:
Ian: Thanks, but no good so far - my box is unchecked :) ... the problem seems to be with macros embedded in the spreadsheet. I notice that any .xls's with macros exhibit the inability to run functions!

I'm trying to see if anyone else is seeing the same nonsense.

Send me your book if you want
 
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Ian:
Thanks for the offer, but I think I've got it figured out - Excel doesn't like to concatenate numbers which have been formatted as text (i.e. zipcode data) - by using 'general' format I've fixed most problems.

Thanx again!

CR
 
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I'm using =B1 & ", " & b2 and all I am seeing is the formula. Works in other books. I have excel 2010. Where is this formulas box in excel 2010... I can't find it!
Thanks.

Try:

Tools/Options/View then check to see if the Formulas box is checked, it shouldn't be.

Any help
 
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Tried it with the concatenate function, too, and All I seen is the function, not the results. I do have a macro in the workbook.
 
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Tried it with the concatenate function, too, and All I seen is the function, not the results. I do have a macro in the workbook.
It sounds like the cell you are putting the formula in is formatted as TEXT, try changing it to GENERAL and then re-enter your formula and see if that works.
 
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