How do I remove formula and keep text?

Delete a formula but keep the results
  1. Select the cell or range of cells that contains the formula.
  2. Click Home > Copy (or press Ctrl + C).
  3. Click Home > arrow below Paste > Paste Values.
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How do you remove formulas in Excel but keep values?

1. Select the cells with formulas you want to remove but keep results, press Ctrl + C keys simultaneously to copy the selected cells. 2. Then click Home > Paste > Values.
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How do I keep text instead of formula in Excel?

Select all the cells with formulas that you want to convert. Press Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Ins to copy formulas and their results to clipboard. Press Shift + F10 and then V to paste only values back to Excel cells. Shift + F10 + V is the shortest way to use Excel "Paste special - values only" dialog.
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How do I display text instead of formula?

Select the cell with the formula, and then click Cells on the Format menu. Click the Number tab. Select the format code that you want the cell to display, and then click OK. The cell still displays the formula.
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How do I change a formula to a value in Excel?

Here it is:
  1. Select the cells for which you want to convert formulas to values.
  2. Bring your mouse cursor over the outline of the selected cells. (You will see an icon of four arrows pointing in the four directions).
  3. Press the RIGHT button of your mouse. ...
  4. Click on Copy Here as Values only.
  5. That's it.
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Remove Formula but keep the data in Excel (2 Really Simple Ways)



Why is my cell showing the formula instead of the result?

Cell format set to Text

If you run into a formula like this, check to see if the cell format is set to Text. If so, set the format to General, or another suitable number format. You may need to enter cell edit mode (click into the formula bar, or use F2, then enter) to get Excel to recognize the format change.
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Why is Excel showing me the formula instead of the result?

There's a setting that makes Excel display formulas only instead of their results. This setting might have been enabled in your spreadsheet somehow. If an empty cell is formatted as text, then when you type the formula and hit enter, it will never show the result. Excel won't even understand that it's a formula.
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How do I convert formulas to text results?

To copy the actual value instead of the formula from the cell to another worksheet or workbook, you can convert the formula in its cell to its value by doing the following: Press F2 to edit the cell. Press F9, and then press ENTER.
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How do you replace formula with results?

Remember that you could use the keyboard shortcut F9 to replace a formula with a value in a single cell. Just edit the cell, put the cursor in the formula, then press F9. Excel will replace the formula with the result of its calculation and you can press Enter to update the cell.
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How do you replace formula with value?

Replace a formula with its calculated value
  1. Select the cell that contains the formula. If the formula is an array formula, select the range that contains the array formula.
  2. On the Home tab, click Copy.
  3. On the Home tab, click Paste.
  4. Click the arrow next to Paste Options. , and then click Values Only.
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How do I remove formula but keep data in Google Spreadsheet?

Copy and Then Paste as Value
  1. Select the cells that have the formula that you want to convert to values (B2:B11 in this example)
  2. Copy the cells. ...
  3. With the cells still selected, right-click on any cell and hover the cursor over the Paste Special option.
  4. In the Paste Special options, click on 'Paste values only'
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How do I show a value instead of formula in Excel 2010?

In Excel 2010, Excel 2013 and Excel 2016, go to File > Options. In Excel 2007, click Office Button > Excel Options. Select Advanced on the left pane, scroll down to the Display options for this worksheet section and select the option Show formulas in cells instead of their calculated results.
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What is the difference between a displayed result and a formula?

What is the difference between a displayed result and a formula? The displayed result changes as the formula dictates it; it may not be a simple value.
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How do you show a value instead of formula in formula bar?

You can do this using F9 in the formula bar: If you select/highlight any term in your formula and press F9 , it will get evaluated and the value is shown instead of the term. E.g. in your example, if you highlight A1 your formula will become =2+B1 .
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What does F9 do in Excel?

F9 Calculates all worksheets in all open workbooks. Shift+F9 calculates the active worksheet. Ctrl+Alt+F9 calculates all worksheets in all open workbooks, regardless of whether they have changed since the last calculation.
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How do I have text and formula in the same cell?

Combine Cells With Text and a Number
  1. Select the cell in which you want the combined data.
  2. Type the formula, with text inside double quotes. For example: ="Due in " & A3 & " days" NOTE: To separate the text strings from the numbers, end or begin the text string with a space.
  3. Press Enter to complete the formula.
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How do I copy text instead of formula in sheets?

To copy values, simply select the cells you want to copy and press CTRL+C from the keyboard. Next, to paste the values only (not formula), select the cell where you want to paste and press down the CTRL+Shift+V keys on the keyboard.
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How do I save an Excel file as values only?

You could try to just select all sheets (select the leftmost one, then shift-click on the last one), then select all cells (the small box left of column A and above row 1), then copy & paste as values.
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How do I convert formulas to values in Google Sheets?

Convert Formula to Values with a Right Click
  1. Place the arrow inside the selected cells and right-click. Select Paste special from the options.
  2. Select Values only.
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How do you remove formulas from Google Sheets?

Tick off Clear formulas to get rid of all formulas in the selected range. Use Clear dates to remove all date-formatted cells. Clear notes allows you to delete all notes in the range in one click. Select the Clear text option to delete all cells formatted as text in the range.
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How do you delete a formula in Google Sheets?

To clear data from a cell or range, simply select the cell or range you want to clear and hit backspace or delete on your keyboard.
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To do this:
  1. Select the cells you want to clear.
  2. Open the Edit menu.
  3. Select Delete Values and the cells will be cleared of data.
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How do I save an Excel file without macros?

Remove All Macros by Saving the File in XLSX format
  1. Click the File tab.
  2. Click on 'Save As' option (it's 'Save a Copy' in new Excel versions)
  3. Click on Browse. ...
  4. In the Save As dialogue box, enter the name of the file with which you want to save it. ...
  5. Click on the Save As type drop-down.
  6. Select the Excel Workbook (*.
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How do I paste values into text?

How to copy and paste text in Excel
  1. Use the shortcut key Ctrl + C on a PC or Command + C on an Apple Mac to copy the text.
  2. Move to where you want to paste the text and press Ctrl + V on a PC or Command + V on an Apple Mac to paste the text.
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