No. You use the & as the concatenation character in a formula. The following will add the two pieces of text together resulting in one piece of text:
="Hello " & "World"
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The ampersand, which is this character: &
One on the most powerful tools in Excel is the ability to use concatenation.
To change a lowercase "e" to a backslash, you can use the shift key and the backslash key on your keyboard. Simply press and hold the shift key, then press the backslash key to type a backslash character ().
A backslash is a typographical mark that can be found on a keyboard. The character of the backslash is a line that slants to the left at the top and to the right at the bottom. It is usually found next to the number 7 key on the keyboard.
backslash
A combination of letters and numbers and symbols is a character set. To use a formula to combine letter and numbers and symbols is known as concatenation.
The & is the concatenation operator. It could be used like this: =A1 & A2
/ forward slash ^First answer is wrong. It's the backslash (\)
backslash
This is a back slash: \. It is usually above the enter key.
Under Microsoft Windows, the character that separates directories within a path is the backslash ( \ ). For compatibility with UNIX, the forward slash ( / ) is now also generally accepted.