How do I display the RESULT of a formula

[Poor microsoft user]

I enter "=1+1" in a cell. Instead of displaying 2, what is displayed is
"=1+1" (without the quotes). I go into microsoft help, do a search on
"display formla", it has a section "display or hide formulas", it has "switch
between displaying formulas and their values on a worksheet". I click that
and it says:
Press CTRL + (grave value)

I have no idea what "grave value" means. I've already wasted an hour on this.

HELP!!!!

 

[Guest]

Hi
It may be that the cell was formatted as text before you entered the
formula. Format it as General and re-enter the formula. The grave accent is
` which is to the left of 1 on my keyboard.

 

[Poor microsoft user]

Thank you Andy! I changed the formatting of the cell, it didn't help.
However, after I changed the formatting of the cell, I RE-ENTERED the
formula, and then it worked. I tried entering CNTL (grave symbol), it didn't
help. I spent 45 minutes reading microsoft "help", and found nothing about
the goofy way formatting cells as text before entering a formula will cause
the formula to not function.

Thanks again!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the feedback! (I did put that you needed to re-enter the formula)