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Making Excel formulas only evaluate once

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Mar 15, 202641421 views
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Is there any way to embed the result of a formula evaluation in a cell, such that the evaluation only happens once? For example: If I put =TODAY() formula in a cell today, if I open the spreadsheet tomorrow I want yesterday's date to be displayed in that cell.

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Fix for: Making Excel formulas only evaluate once

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In some cases where you want to get a static answer from a formula you can do what you want without using a formula. In your example Excel doesn't know whether TODAY() was meant to mean today's date or the date that it was entered in the spreadsheet…

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