This is a weird one.
I have an excel file with formulas which is emailed back and forth between users in different countries (different language settings more than likely).
To get the formulas to calculate, you hit enable editing which calculates all the formulas in the workbook.
On windows 10, I receive a file and when I hit enable editing, the formulas do not calculate unless I manually go into each one and hit return. If I open the same file from windows 8, it calculates.
The formulas are correctly in as "custom" and automatic formula calculation is on, the sheet does not calculate if you hit calculate now. There are no circular references.
Another fix I tried was replacing all the = signs with =.
Anyone come across this issue? I do not have details of applied updates to office but I am assuming the sender and the receiver are up to date.
I am not sure how that happens or why the method I am describing works, but it works for me.
Using text to columns, select fixed width but don't actually separate anything to columns and hit finish. You should get all the results of the formula. However it is a real pain if your formulas are in many different columns.
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The input cells are marked with colour upon inserting a formula. But upon selecting formulas, the cells are not dispayed/marked, and this makes the spreadsheet less readable and thereby reduce my workflow.
The problem has been presented here too, but without any proper answer/solution:
https://superuser.com/questions/1228416/cells-referenced-in-formula-not-displaying
Inserting a formula
Selecting a cell with a formula
I did as explained by others in the link provided, but they didn't help unfortunately.
PS. I do have macros enabled, and work with them a bit. But nothing that should turn on/off such functions...
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to identify what caused the problem, and neither the solution.
I ran my macro a couple of times, and it suddenly worked. I don't even remember if it was at the first run.
Sorry guys, for you others might looking for the same solution as I did...
The macros were only making some formulas and autofill them for specific ranges...
I have tried to find this scenario somewhere but haven't been able to find any useful resources.
Essentially, I have performed some work in Excel and upon returning to the file the row sizes were so large the file could not used properly, and the cells were blank. The row sizes was an easy fix, however the blank cells are strange because they still contain text/formulae.
Has anyone seen this issue before, and know how to fix it?
Thanks!!!!
In this image, you can see that the selected sell contains some text
Here, if I double click to edit the cell contents, there seems to be some kind of disconnect between the location of the cell, and where Excel is allowing me to edit the text
I think you should start working with "formulatext()" Excel function: if you have a formula, this returns a full string
I've seen issues like this in the past and have always first tried the "Text to Columns" Data Tool on the Data Menu. I have used this when cells are unexpectedly blank, or when my dates are registering as dates or formulas are registering as formulas. It might help.
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 have a 60mb excel file that has all of the "sins"... Array formulas, VBA and conditional formats. It crashes all the time and it's now being suggested that it's too big. There are about 20 worksheets and 3 of them are 15mb in size and each have about 35,000,000 active cells. Is this why the sheet crashes?
Yea I have this problem also.
This is a compilation of hat works for me. Some of this may be relevant, some may not.
Turn off automatic calculation. If you are desperate about this, then turn it off while doing the rest of the list but turn on afterwards
Make a backup. Everytime something on this list works, make a new backup. Excel has no brain, make sure to use your own.
Remove empty-but-not-empty cells... Sometimes, for a number of reasons, excel finds it necessary to keep track of all possible rows and columns.
I fix this by recreating whatever chart I have made by copying the specific areas that are needed on new sheets and then delete the old one and rename the new one to match. Search/replace will fix formulas afterwards if they get buggered. You can also mark the rows/cols and right-click -> delete rows/cols but that may cause a total freeze so I prefer the former method.
Get rid of the array formulas. Seriously, they can in 90-something % of the time be replaced by a cleverer sumproduct, sumifs or index(match()) formula or by adding columns or doing things in 2 steps. They are resource hogs. Leftovers from a different age. The only time I accept arrays is when I know I have exhausted all possibilities.
Very important, save the files as x64 binary formats for the files (.xlsb). Do not use the "compatibility" format (.xlsx) and for the love of god, do not use regular .xls
Move all graphics to separate sheets, and better yet, separate files. Mirror the result data via vba, copy paste, whatever to separate files and have your conditional formatting, images, graphs, progress bars, gantts, whatever there.
I hope it's not inappropriate to post this.
After some stalling and perhaps some skepticism, I replaced all of the array formulas in my sheet. There were approximately 1,500,000 cells affected by array formulas and I didn't relish the thought of redoing this. BUT WHAT AN UNBELIEVABLE DIFFERENCE! The sheet now runs faster, better and very reliably! I'll never use an array formula again. Thank you!!