New characters appearing for displaying references

[Brendan_Woithe]

@EvanBrooks

@Brendan_Woithe, I am curious if you want that “AUD” reference to be clickable, ie because there’s more info on that row? If you don’t, I understand that the @ looks in the way. Ander and Federico’s suggestions are good workarounds— you can refer specifically to the the display column in a formula, or convert the whole formula to text.

No - I did not want it clickable.
I have spent a long time understanding data-formats in coda, and it seems only just NOW got some of the important concepts behind lookups / rows and select lists and columns.
Indeed - I’ve just made another post about this - and have a question about how to go through and rebuild a bunch of tables.

Lookups and Select lists - an understanding, but how to fix?

I’ve been struggling away for perhaps 5 or 6 months creating a project management system for our little business, and thanks to an oft repeated piece of advice on this forum, I think I’ve just realised a few things. Big shout out to @Paul_Danyliuk - and this post coming out of another topic In particular : And this really got me thinking. I’ve had a hard time trying to ‘lock’ parts of my project (see Editing lookups from a locked, read only table (and how do we lock a lookup table properly…