[mso] Re: Excel & Word

You can't put formulas in a text formatted field....text formatted fields
display exactly what you type into them...if you want to use a formula,
change the formatting to general 

And, I'm not sure I understand what you are saying....the number isn't
showing up with the parentheses, etc. in Excel when you use the
Special>telephone number formatting?


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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of GLENDA WELLS
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:43 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Excel & Word

Hi All.

I have a field formatted special to display as telephone number.  The actual

value is 1234567890. It looks like (123) 456-7890

When I use Word to merge this field it displays the actual value.

In Excel I tried to get the value so used functions left, mid and right in a

text formatted field.  When I do that though what I see in the cell is the 
formula, not the result.

I tried the control + ` to switch between formula and value but that did not

work.

HELP. please. thanks. /g


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