Timeline for Returning an unevaluated expression with values substituted in

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Jun 23, 2013 at 17:54	answer	added	IIIIIIIIIIII		timeline score: 1
Jul 5, 2012 at 11:06	vote	accept	Michael Stern
Jul 5, 2012 at 9:42	comment	added	Mr.Wizard		Michael, I have addressed this problem in my answer.
Jul 5, 2012 at 0:37	comment	added	Michael Stern		Both the Mr. Wizard and Mike Honeychurch have solutions that come very close to what I want. In fact, at first I thought they both had it. I notice however that there is a case in which both methods fail. Both simplify out certain simple identities. For example, if formula[{a_, b_, c_, d_}] := HoldForm[abc*d], then both versions drop some 1s given as input (oddly, not all). formula[{1,1,1,1}] works as desired but formula[1,2,1,31] does not.
Jul 5, 2012 at 0:05	vote	accept	Michael Stern
Jul 5, 2012 at 0:34
Jul 5, 2012 at 0:05	vote	accept	Michael Stern
Jul 5, 2012 at 0:05
Jul 5, 2012 at 0:05	vote	accept	Michael Stern
Jul 5, 2012 at 0:05
Jul 4, 2012 at 23:06	answer	added	Mike Honeychurch		timeline score: 4
Jul 4, 2012 at 21:24	history	edited	István Zachar		edited tags
Jul 4, 2012 at 16:39	history	edited	rm -rf♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 12 characters in body; edited title
Jul 4, 2012 at 16:36	history	tweeted			twitter.com/#!/StackMma/status/220556761445314560
Jul 4, 2012 at 16:34	answer	added	Mr.Wizard		timeline score: 18
Jul 4, 2012 at 16:34	answer	added	Leonid Shifrin		timeline score: 10
Jul 4, 2012 at 16:21	history	asked	Michael Stern	CC BY-SA 3.0