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Default WORKDAYS FUNCTION CAUSES #NAME? ERROR WHEN OTHERS USE FILE

Thanks fellas, that was it. Should I tell my IT department to turn on all
these add-ins or could this cause problems???

"BLOTTY" wrote:

I CREATED A WORKSHEET WHICH TAKES A GIVEN DATE, SUBTRACTS A NUMBER OF GIVEN
DAYS AND A STANDARD NUMBER OF DAYS TO OUTPUT AN EARLIER DATE (NOT INCLUDING
WEEKENDS) WHEN OTHERS TRY TO USE IT ON DIFFERENT PC'S, SOME GET A "#NAME?"
ERROR AND WHILE OTHERS IT WORKS FOR.

THE FORMULA I USED IS:

=WORKDAY(B4,-C4-3)
B4=01/01/07 (DATE FORMAT 3/14/01)
C4=1 (NUMBER FORMAT 0 DECIMAL PLACES)