Hi Hilary Lomotey

you have Custom Cell Formatting
_(* #.##0,00_);_(* (#.##0,00);_(* "-"??_);_(@_)

you must change by:
_(* #.##0,00_);_(* (#.##0,00);_(* ""??_);_(@_)
or another of your choice


Chilexcel



2012/7/31 Hilary Lomotey <resp...@gmail.com>

> thanks Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:48 PM, David Grugeon <da...@grugeon.com.au>wrote:
>
>> You have a circular reference.  The formulas in col W refer to a range
>> including the cell B34 which refers to cells in col W.
>>
>> I don't really understand quite what you are doing so I do not offer a
>> solution but I hope this will help you find one for yourself.
>>
>> Regards
>> David Grugeon
>>
>>
>> On 31 July 2012 20:41, Hilary Lomotey <resp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Again,
>>>
>>> There is something funny going on in the formula in the attached sheet.
>>> in column B34 i have written a
>>> formula INDEX($W$3:$W$667,MATCH(U3,$V$3:$V$667,0)) to pick up the value
>>> from a list however the outcome comes with a dash (-), however if i run
>>> formula evaluator, you can see it picks the text correctly, however it ends
>>> with a dash , i thought i could just multiply the outcome by 1 to get the
>>> text, that also did not help, can i get an assistance why excel is behaving
>>> this way. thanks
>>>
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