Glenda, As far as the display of formulas in your Excel worksheet is concerned, make sure your Tools - Options - View - Window Options - Formulas, setting is correct ie not checked. Re the display, regret that I have to get ready for a lecture, have tried various options but get the same as you. Sorry can't hep on that one. Regards Norman Pearce IM&T Learning Manager The Training Centre Ealing Hospital NHS Trust UK Developing the foundations for your success -----Original Message----- From: GLENDA WELLS [mailto:gwells58@xxxxxxx] Sent: 27 January 2006 00:43 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 _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee(r) Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************