If you leave this out Excel will simply treat the formula as text.

Display text and formula in excel cell. In Excel there are several ways to combine text and numbers. The quotes tell Excel its dealing with text and by text we mean any character including numbers spaces and punctuation. The complete formula should read The sum of 33 is SUMA1A2 Click anywhere else on the table and cell A4 will now show.

Showing Text in the Same Cell as a Formula. Select the cell values that you want to display them with different text and then click Home Conditional Formatting New Rule see screenshot. Or maybe you need to format numbers with text without affecting formulas that use those numbers.

Cells of Column D and E have a formula which is calculating the ratio. We use the TEXT function in the following circumstances. Value is the numerical value that we need to convert to text.

You can format cells that. Excel thinks your formula is text. A2 B2 is C2 years old You can run this formula to multiple examples to see how it works.

Now we want to display the formulas of these cells. Actually there is a function dedicated to solve these problems FORMULATEXT function. Excel cell A24 in the image above.

You can also find this option in the Formulas tab of the Ribbon. We can use assignment operator to pull the text from another cell in Excel. For example the following formula will get the text from Cell D5 and display in.