Just wondering if anyone has seen the following behaviour and had a solution.
This just started happening. After running a manual FDS code refresh, excel still shows the formulae onscreen and I can't select cells using the mouse. I can move around the page with arrow keys and the cell edit box at the top of the program displays the result. I can also copy the result and see it in the clipboard (Crtl-V). I have used the Factset Troubleshooter to reset the Add-In but that doesn't seem to work. Yes, have rebooted machine. Excel on its own doesn't exhibit this behaviour, meaning if I put a formula in a cell, the result pops up, not the formula so I am certain it is not an issue with excel itself.
Any ideas?
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I have an Excel file on SharePoint.
Multiple people edit said file.
Offline and online.
Excel unfills all calculated cells (VLOOKUP and MATCH) that depend on other sheets in the same workbook at random.
So if you would open or reload that file, suddenly all the cells that use VLOOKUP or MATCH would be blank.
Upon further investigation nobody changed anything or deleted anything.
It just happens randomly.
Now it has happened 2 weeks ago and just today.
I have an interim solution that is to go to a cell with a formula, hit return, then click „overwrite all cells in this column with this formula“ and then click undo to prevent custom cell content to be overwritten.
Everything is back to normal afterwards.
I talked to a colleague, he has the exact same issue also totally at random.
He also encountered this on files that are not being edited by multiple people but himself.
So it is not dependent on the file itself.
Could the language play into this problem?
On some PCs Excel is in English and on some in German.
=IFERROR(IF(ISNA(VLOOKUP(D185,Sheet1!$B$3:$D$616,3,FALSE)),(VLOOKUP(D185,'Sheet2'!$B$3:$D$22200,3,FALSE)),(VLOOKUP(D185,Sheet1!$B$3:$D$616,3,FALSE))),"")
Seems like your sheet isn't calculating upon open. See if this link is of use to you.
https://superuser.com/questions/448376/what-is-the-excel-hotkey-to-re-calculate-all-formula-in-sheet
Also check your program settings and see if auto-calculate sheets is enabled. Don't know from the top of my head where it is located.
Alternative create a small vba function to force recalculate on workbook open.
Getting Excel to refresh data on sheet from within VBA
I have an Excel spreadsheet with calculation options set to Automatic
However when I add some formulate for example
=CONCATENATE(“ABC",UNICHAR(8730))
The formulae do not auto-compute. Even running the manual computation from the menus does not force them to calculate.
The only way to do this is to click in the Cell, and then press Enter which is tedious since I have hundreds of cells per document, and do not want the end users to have to do this.
This does not work in Excel 16 for Mac, Windows Excel 16
UPDATE 1:
Link to sample Excel File https://www.dropbox.com/s/cxdbego1vw1jwln/SampleExcelFileWithErrors.xls?dl=0
I don't know what causes this issue, and I can't replicate it. But the two suggested solutions are:
Find and replace - swap "=" for "=". Yes the same thing.
Text to columns - click finish right away.
I think it is more of some bugs of excel rather than anything, and I have no idea what I did that made it behaves like this. It was normal until recently.
The problem is that now whenever I change the content of a cell, black borders appear around it or around the row of it. These black borders are not like permanent changes that are made to the cells. They appear right after I change the cell, and when I do anything that refreshes the Excel window (such as scroll to the right and then scroll back left, or switch to another application and then switch back) they disappear, which seems to me like some kind of memory problem. However, even when I cancel all excel applications or even restart my computer, it still happens the next time I turn on excel.
It would be great if somebody can help. Thanks.
Someone posted me an answer as an edit to my question. Though I cannot try it right now, I want to post it here in case it may be the fix to my problem and others having the same problem can have a look at it.
Solution:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Fixes-or-workarounds-for-recent-issues-in-Excel-for-Windows-49d932ce-0240-49cf-94df-1587d9d97093
Dark borders around rows and cells appear when entering text in Excel 2016 after Sept 12, 2017 update (KB4011050) [FIXED]
I am having trouble diagnosing this problem we in our office have begun to experience since... upgrading(???)... to Excel 2016.
We cannot recreate the issue on command; we are not sure what causes it. I am not even sure what to Google (list below)! We'll be working in a sheet, all is normal, moving from cell to cell or whatever... then at some point, moving from one typical cell to the next, suddenly, the sheet just... stops letting us use it. It just stops letting us make changes and acts strange.
Here are the symptoms:
Can edit some cells, but the changes will "vanish" when you leave the cell.
Can not click on all cells. The selector with just not highlight them.
Can not add or remove filters, or sort.
Can not Copy or Paste.
Can not delete any cells that can be highlighted.
This can happen to us on a variety of sheets and none of them have "protection" or sheet locking of any kind whatsoever. Zero, zilch, nada. These sheets are NOT "Locked for Editing". And I've looked at my co-workers keyboards to ensure that something silly like Num or Scroll lock wasn't causing the problem; they're not enabled.
One solution which I've found sometimes seems to fix the problem, is to switch sheets. That's it! Sheet1 not responding and treating you like you're locked out? Switch to Sheet2 (just click on it) then switch back to Sheet1. Fixed! Now the cells just... work again. The selector works again. Editing works again, just from switching from one sheet back to another. Well... sometimes.
Other times that does nothing, and then we have to save and reopen the sheet, and it works fine without any other changes. It is very confusing that, without even doing anything besides reopening it, that it works again.
These are a few examples of the stuff I've tried Googling over the last few weeks (I don't think I need to provide the complete list here... all searches have returned nothing useful, only articles talking about how to Lock and Unlock your sheet properly, which isn't this):
excel 2016 locks from editing
excel 2016 locks while working
excel 2016 locked for editing not locked
excel 2016 can't edit until switch sheets
I believe this is a known problem in excel 2016, Especially if you have windows 10. It looks like you need to keep resetting it like you have been doing but it is annoying.
If you try to disable "hardware graphics acceleration" in options menu, that should fix the issue and you would not have to keep switching between sheets.
I have an Listbox Multiselect ActiveX control in a Sheet with Freeze Panes. The problem is that when I try to select items the mouseover icon is the standard excel cross instead of the arrow. I know that this question was asked before, but I didn't find any answer.
Thank u in advanced for help
I tested, and I came up with a few interesting observations.
In the ribbon, go to the developer tab. Make sure that the Design
Mode is not on.
When I first froze panes on the sheet, the freeze line went through the listbox I created. This caused the behavior you are describing with the cross-hairs and being unable to select.
Then I moved the listbox. Still same problem. I tried clicking on various cells around the sheet and in the ribbon area, with no change in behavior.
When I clicked to another sheet and back again, it started working as expected. Normal pointer mouse. I could select multiple, and unselect as needed.
Based on what I've tried, it seems that making sure Design Mode is off, and clicking to another sheet and back again may fix the problem.