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My excel in office 365 on iPad does not understand a simple formula
I recently purchased an Office 365 license and downloaded the latest versions of Excel to my iPad Pro 11”.
Earlier I have used the free Excel daily on my old iPad 4 with no hickups.
Today I cannot get Excel to do the simple task of comparing content in a cell.
There must be an installation trick that I have not performed and look for guidance.
I include a picture displaying 2 simple rows where the first one works fine
but the second one produces a #NAME? error that I cannot understand.
Please advice!
SergeiBaklan you have pointed me in the right direction of solving this problem.
What looked like a double quote was not one. The solution that works for me is to uncheck the "Smart punctuation", which seems to be the default of a new installation of iOS, found under Setting->General->Keyboards of iOS.
Tested and working!
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MickeNy after a long talk with MS tech we concluded that when you enter a new formula that contains a character quote such as ”a” then the error code #NAME? is raised.
The condition was found in iPad office 365 excel and in online office 365 excel.
An error report has been submitted and hopefully we will have a correction shortly.
That's nothing specific for iPad, any version of Excel returns #NAME? error if you use " CHAR(148) instead of " CHAR(34). If check for the explanation that will be unrecognized text
Exactly the same effect, if, for example, type
=IF(A2=abcde,1,0)
