Display formula in Word document
m@rina Posted messages 27507 Registration date Status Moderator Last intervention -
Hello everyone,
Currently a student, I'm struggling with one of my work documents. It's a Word document (not Excel) with several tables that allow me to calculate data. Before, I would fill in certain cells of my table, hit the F9 key on my keyboard, and other cells would show the results with my new data taken into account. However, I must have made a mistake because for the past few days, I haven't been able to calculate anything; I'm left with incomprehensible formulas displayed while before I only had my numerical data. Can you help me?
Thank you in advance!
2 answers
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Hello,
It’s not a terrible idea to do calculations in Word.
That said, F9 updates the fields but does not change the display mode: if the formula itself is displayed and not its result, you need to toggle the field using ALT+F9. -
Thank you for your help.
I have my tables displaying normally again, but when I press F9, it seems like nothing is updating...
I am aware that it's not great in Word, but it's a document that has been passed to me like this, and I don't have the ability to convert it to Excel.
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What do you want me to say, the juggling between changing formulas, updating them, and displaying them isn't very practical and, unlike Excel, there's no immediate verification method.
Apart from very basic needs, Word and formulas just don't mix; the normal way to proceed if you need the presentation in Word is indeed to insert an Excel table with a link. -
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