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Toggle the Display of Formulas in MS Excel

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Sometimes we just need to see the formulas in our MS Excel worksheet. I have had more than one inquiry regarding this topic. When this situation presents itseld, you may want to turn on Excel’s formula display.  Follow the steps below to learn how:

Simply click on Ctrl + ~ (tilde).

There is a more convoluted method of doing this in version 2003 via Tools | Options but as you all know I am all about saving time and keystrokes. In version 2007, you have the Show Formulas button in the Formula Auditing group of the Formulas tab, but as I said, why waste time and keystrokes?

If you select a cell whose formula you would like to troubleshoot before turning on the formula display feature, MS Excel will also show you the dependent cells for the formula!