View Single Post
  #5   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
merry_fay merry_fay is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 23
Default Formula Sometimes Working Sometimes Not

Hiya,

The calculation is set to manual (necessary or I sit & wait for 30+ mins
each time I make a change) but I have definitely updated the cell.
I've checked the source data too. There's definitely no hidden rows & when I
filter it on the specifications in the formula, I find I should have a result
of 27 for criteria "P".
The result for criteria "SB" would be 1, I'm getting a result of 28.

I have checked other cells with the formula in & in most cases it's working
& only picking up the "P" cells. There's just a few cases where it's picking
up both.

As there's over 15k cells with this formula & it's only a small section of
the overall spreadsheet, I am unfortunately unable to calculate everything
manually.

Thanks!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Your formula looks ok to me.

I'd check to make sure that calculation was set to automatic (just in case).

Then start looking at the data -- maybe you have hidden rows that you haven't
noticed.

If worse came to worse, you could test your results by putting a formula in an
extra column and adding that up.

merry_fay wrote:

I have written a formula in excel:
=SUMPRODUCT(('Gross PAYM Talkplan Data'!$G$3:$G$3973=CH$119)*('Gross PAYM
Talkplan Data'!$J$3:$J$3973=$A124&"P"&"18 month"),('Gross PAYM Talkplan
Data'!$E$3:$E$3973))

In the data it is looking at, 1 of the criteria to pick up the correct
numbers is either "P" or "SB" depending on what I'm looking at.
In most instances, the above formula is bringing back only results with a P,
but in some it's bringing back the results for both P & SB so my figures are
wrong.

The formula has been copied across & down in my table so there's no
differences except for which column/row (CH$119/$A124) it looks at.

Why is it doing this & how can I stop it?

Thanks
Miranda


--

Dave Peterson