I have an Excel 2007 document with a lot of formulas of the format:
SUMIFS(view1[COLUMN1],view1[COLUMN2],$C13,view1[COLUMN3],I$10)
but when I save the sheet and reopen it each formula is changed to the much less readable (but still accurate) format:
SUMIFS(data!$F$2:$F$65536,data!$B$2:$B$65536,$C13,data!$K$2:$K$65536,I$10)
The formulas all still work, I just want to keep the view as view1[COLUMN1] to make it more readable and to make edits easier.
How do I stop Excel from automatically changing how this shows up in the formula bar?
Suggestion might help on your situation.
Add a column header to your data and convert your data set to a table.
The benefit of using table is your formula will shows the column name instead of cell reference.
It should able to fix your problem.
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this may be a dumb question. I'm no excel expert by any means. But i have to use an evaluation / formula in excel.
I have 3 sheets. Rohdaten (=meaning raw data), where i pasta the data into. And ExpProcA or B. => there the data is referenced and calculations done. The links are like this: =Rohdaten!AW3
I wanted to paste the data via Python / PANDAS. Its all working well, i can paste it via XLSWriter and such. And i also can open it and "refresh" it. I will add the open command and refresh later. But thats not the problem.
Here lies my problem, which i can't solve. The ExpProcA/B and my file says: Some references in your sheet can't be refreshed. Then i can press -> okay or edit references.
But the data/reference is there, if in the ExpProcB sheet i go to A2, B2, C2, D2 where #REF / #BEZUG(german) stands and press enter = its working.
Then i can select this 4 cells and fill all down below without formatting.
How would i solve this / do a real auto update without pressing enter and filling down? I tried every (auto) update option in Excel, turned off any security setting in my Excel settings. But it doesn't happen.
Or is there an easy way to import calculations from XLS into Python? Then i could skip pasting into excel, do calculations there and the stuff of opening/writing/extracting from excel via Python PANDAS.
So, i may think, that there is something off with the file. I'm using the latest version of MS365 / excel.
Here is a screenshot of the cell with the reference and "error" message:
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards
Tim Rachul
I used the file, pasted data in, thought it would refresh => it doesnt. Tried everything with auto updates and settings, but i can't solve it
I came across a strange Excel book at work. When I retrieved a date value from any sheet in that Excel book, that value didn't match the date that it is supposed to represent.
However, the value 42978 doesn't represent 9/1/2021, but 8/31/2017. In fact, if you copied that cell to any cell in any sheet in another book, you would see 8/31/2017 in that cell. On the other hand, that value would always go 9/1/2021 in any cell in the original book. As seen, even though the macros have been disabled, I don't know how it can do that. I can't continue to work with that. Can someone please help me?
I would like to upload that Excel book, but probably can't contractually. And all macros in the book are password protected from editing and deletion, so I can't even see the contents of the macros.
There is an option within Excel which makes use of different date-systems: see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/1900-and-1904-date-system
Open Excel Options
Goto Advanced
Scroll down to When calculating this workbook and check/uncheck Use 1904 data system
This should fix your problem.
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 a class that reads & writes Excel (xlsx) cells using OpenXML SDK. The class is based of the most voted answer from here: Open XML SDK 2.0 - how to update a cell in a spreadsheet?
I need to update a cell and then get a value of another cell, which contains a calculation formula. The update works fine, but when I read the formula cell after the update I get the old value, that existed in the doc before editing. However, when I open my xlsx manually after running the program I can see the correct value.
So it's seems like the old value for cell is cached somewhere... Which is weird, because I open/close my doc each time before I read/write cells.
EDIT:
Vincent's answer made me update my sample code. I added a Refresh method that opens, saves and closes the document in the Excel application ran in background. This recalculates my formulas.
For more details and C# code sample see: http://fczaja.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-read-and-write-excel-cells-with.html
Open XML SDK doesn't refresh the calculation results of formulas. Only Excel does that (or other spreadsheet software). So even if you set ForceFullCalculation and FullCalculationOnLoad to true, you only tell Excel to force a full calculation and do it when loading the spreadsheet file.
This is why you always get the "old" value. Because there's no "new" value to speak of.
To test this, you can set the CellValue (of the Cell class) to say "3.14159" with the CellFormula intact. Excel will calculate and display the correct value of your formula, even though you specifically set the cell value as "3.14159". [Unless of course, your formula evaluates to PI...]
To solve this, you either have a calculation engine to read in the formula and calculate the result for you. Or save the spreadsheet and run Excel (in Interop mode) to calculate all the formulas, but that kind of defeat the purpose of using Open XML SDK in the first place.
You can make use of the Workbook.CalculationProperties Property, something like:
document.WorkbookPart.Workbook.CalculationProperties.FullCalculationOnLoad = true;
You could also force the calculation of the formulas (if needed):
document.WorkbookPart.Workbook.CalculationProperties.ForceFullCalculation = true;
I have excel spreadsheet
I am looking to know date-time when my excel cells have been modified last time.
Can I do it in Excel or Access?
If yes, what function I can use?
Thanx!
in Excel, you can Track Changes
This opens up the workbook for sharing, and you can even tell Excel to track specific cells, and if you want your changes tracked or not.
This is an example of what you see when values are changed:
You can use this Track Changes feature to find out the last modifier date of a cell and find who the user was.
How to Track Changes in Excel 2007
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/ms-office-tips/track-changes-in-excel/