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Preserve formula in Alteryx

mazeem
6 - Meteoroid
‎12-22-2021 01:55 PM

How do you preserve formula when outputting data into excel file? When you click in the cell, I want the formula to show what is being calculated.

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DavidP
17 - Castor
17 - Castor
‎12-22-2021 02:55 PM

Hi @mazeem 

 

When you write data into a cell in Excel, by definition it overwrites the contents of that cell.

 

However, you can write formulas into cells that reference other cells, as shown in the example below:

 

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The result in Excel then looks like this:

 

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