[Solved] Cells show formula instead of result

[mattandgizmo]

Hiya
I'm going crazy with this spreadsheet
No matter what formula I put into any cell, even if it's just a basic "=A6+A7" where A6=5 and A7=5, the cell just displays the formula and not the result
And in the bottom right of the screen, next to the zoom bar, it has in a box "Sum=10"
Can someone please tell me what I can do to get my spreadsheet to actually show the answer in the cell rather than the formula?
I have searched for this but I seem to be the only one with this problem
Thanks very much in advance

[Villeroy]

Tools>Options...Calc>View: "SHow Formulas"=OFF

[mattandgizmo]

Thats great thank you very much

[darksander]

Hey,

It doesnt work for me. I have that check off in my options, but I still see the formula.
The thing is that sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, while using the same formula.

I have tried all sorts of ways of inserting the formula, wizard, copy-paste, write in..

Thanks for any help,
Sander

[darksander]

Update: noticed that if I let the autocomplete fill in the rest of function name (such as, I write conc.. and it completes with atenate) it works.

[mandrill]

Check that the sheet and cells that are showing the formula aren't protected.

1. Select the cells in question
2. Format > Cells > Cell protection
3. Uncheck everything.

The above solutions didn't work for me but this did.

[jkjambsj]

Oh my word! I just had the same problem and a soupson of the above suggestions was the only solution. I had occasion to test my solution thoroughly.

I have SheetA and SheetB with "master" information in it that is read by SheetC. SheetA and SheetB do not read each other. Every month, I create a SheetMMYYYY that reads SheetA, SheetB and SheetC. All of these were (1) on drive S and (2) in the same subfolder. I had to move the whole system to drive M. I tried to preserve the folder structure on drive S, but I had to make do. I also moved all the SheetMMYYYY sheets into a subfolder of the folder where SheetA, SheetB and SheetC are.

After moving the whole system from M:\Folder1\Folder2 to S:\Folder1\Folder3\Folder2, it was cinch doing a search of the M drive path to replace with the S drive path in Sheet C. On moving the SheetMMYYY sheets to S:\Folder1\Folder3\Folder2\Reports\YYYYMM folder, all the links to SheetA, SheetB and SheetC changed to include the \Reports\YYYYMM subfolder, so I searched \Reports\YYYYMM and removed them.

That should have been sufficient, but on two of the tabs in each SheetMMYYYY sheet, certain formulae were being displayed instead of their results. I was exasperated, and finally braved the forums. I hate searching forums. My final solution to the problem was:

STEP ONE

Tools>Options...Calc>View: "SHow Formulas"=OFF

AND

Check that the sheet and cells that are showing the formula aren't protected.

1. Select the cells in question
2. Format > Cells > Cell protection
3. Uncheck everything.

The above solutions didn't work for me but this did.

STEP TWO
1. Select all the troublesome forumula cells and convert them to type "All" and "Standard"
2. Convert them again to type "Text"

STEP THREE

Update: noticed that if I let the autocomplete [with INSERT on] fill in the rest of function name (such as, I write conc.. and it completes with atenate) it works.

This was tricky. My formulae contained either ONE or TWO instances of the word VLOOKUP, and that is the only function used in them. In formulae where the VLOOKUP was used twice, I had to do the autocomplete thing on BOTH instances of the word for the cell to wake up and show me the RESULT of the formula instead of the raw formula.

And that was the only way it would work. Copying a "woken" cell and pasting it preserved the fix.

[Villeroy]

2. Convert them again to type "Text"

No, don't do that.

1. Select the cells in question
2. Format > Cells > Cell protection
3. Uncheck everything.

Not necessary. Just unprotect the sheet. This will also "open" all locks that are applied to any cells.