Google Spreadsheet freaks out if presented with single quotation marks

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on November 10, 2011 - 8:14am

note
Google

If you're getting a parse error for no apparent reason from the formula in your cell, it is probably because Google Spreadsheet cannot grasp the concept of single quotation marks ('like these') and you'll need to use double quotation marks ("like this").

For instance:

=IF(B4>0,CONCATENATE("http://pm.agaric.com/issues/",B4),"")

Doubles all the way or that stupid useless parse error message.

Searched words:

Google docs calc spredsheets

Comments

Thanks so much Ben - this

Submitted by Alex (not verified) on July 10, 2013 - 8:32am.

Thanks so much Ben - this just saved me probably another half hour of scratching my head! Stupid Google...

Post new comment

Your name: *

E-mail: *

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Homepage:

Subject:

Comment: *

You may post code using <code>...</code> (generic) or <?php ... ?> (highlighted PHP) tags.
You can use Markdown syntax to format and style the text. Also see Markdown Extra for tables, footnotes, and more.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <blockquote> <small> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <sub> <sup> <p> <br> <strike> <table> <tr> <td> <thead> <th> <tbody> <tt> <output>
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

User login

Google Spreadsheet freaks out if presented with single quotation marks

Comments

Thanks so much Ben - this

Post new comment

Search

Agaric?

Agaric Design Collective

Copyright