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Click the FORMULAS tab on the Ribbon. Click Show Formulas in the Formula Auditing group. The Formulas in the worksheet will appear, so that you will know which cells contain formulas and what the formulas are.

The FORMULATEXT function returns a formula as a text string from a cell reference. The FORMULATEXT can be used to extract a formula as text from a cell reference. The text returned by FORMULATEXT is the same as displayed in the formula bar when a cell with a formula is selected.

Follow these steps: Select the cell that contains the formula for which you want to find precedent cells. To display a tracer arrow to each cell that directly provides data to the active cell, on the Formulas tab, in the Formula Auditing group, click Trace Precedents .

Check the Cell Format for Text If the format shows Text, change it to Number. When a cell is formatted as Text, Excel makes no attempt to interpret the contents as a formula. After you change the format, you'll need to reconfirm the formula by clicking in the Formula Bar and then pressing the Enter key.

Method 1: Copy and paste values to convert formulas to text strings. Copy-and-paste value is one of Excel's most frequently used methods for converting complex formulas to values. You can use the copy-and-paste values method on a cell and a range of cells.

If the cell is formatted as text, Excel will treat any formula entered into that cell as text, and will not perform the calculation. To change the cell format, select the cell(s), right-click, and choose "Format Cells". In the "Number" tab, select "General" or another number format.

In Microsoft Excel, if you enter a formula that links one cell to a cell that is formatted with the Text number format, the cell that contains the link is also formatted as text. If you then edit the formula in the linked cell, the formula is displayed in the cell rather than the value that is returned by the formula.