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How to Add Text into an Excel 2016 Formula

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were going to show you how to add text to an Excel 2016 formula. Don't forget to check out our main channel for more free how-to videos! Join us on Facebook Our App First, start off like any other formula, with an equals sign. Text is a string value, thus it must be enclosed in quotation marks. The example shown below uses the formula: [=Cash: ]. To add an actual calculation to the formula after the string value, you must use the ampersand symbol (&) to concatenate, or add, the calculation on at the end of the formula. The below example adds in the actual calculation. To add an extra element to the formula, more text for example, simply throw in another ampersand (&) symbol before the new text. The full formula shown below is as follows: [=Cash: & SUM(H8: H107) SUM(I8: I107) & dollars]. Make sure to include the spaces in the string values. The result that shows after hitting Enter, or selecting a different cell should be as shown below. A calculation in between two string values that have been concatenated on
Date: 2023-07-08

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dldbug
When I try to preface my formula with text( as you explain) in a cell that is formatted for percentage it makes the cell return a floating decimal instead of the expected whole number followed with a percent sign (i. e 9% becomes. 0897. I guess my solution would require adding the Round function and maybe adding % at the end, but it's not elegant.
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dldbug
Here's the actual formula I'm referring to in my earlier post (fixed is a named range)
=Percentage fixed since October 21 - & SUM(COUNTIF(Fixed, Y, N/A) /COUNTA(Fixed)
The results are 0. 086965 instead of 9%
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