Excel and double quotes in functions

Gerry1995 · 2013-10-17 18:44:46

This is a question just to satisfy my curiosity, if I am using a function in excel and text is the output, why do I have to use double quotes instead of single quotes. e.g IF((A2>D2),"A is bigger","A is not bigger")

17-10-2013 06:44PM

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This is a question just to satisfy my curiosity, if I am using a function in excel and text is the output, why do I have to use double quotes instead of single quotes.
e.g IF((A2>D2),"A is bigger","A is not bigger")

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Because " is the delimiter for a string. A ' is used to precede a string in a cell which otherwise would be considered a formula

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