plittle, sounds like the cell in spreadsheet2 was formatted as text, format
it as something else and the type = and select spreadsheet1 A1 and enter

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Paul B
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>I am trying to take information already on one spreadsheet and incorporate
> some of it into a second spreadsheet used for a different purpose. I have
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> I am new at all of this so . . . . Thank you.