Well, I would agree, if the head was falling off, but I doubt that is the case.
There would be a lot more complaints like yours if the problem(s) were as
critical as a hammer with a head that falls off.

The facts appear to be that you have a complex set of worksheets and your
environment (including Excel) doesn't appear to be completely stable. I have
numerous worksheets that have calculation set to manual, due to long
recalculation times and many updates, but none of them would fail just because
they were recalculated automatically.

Excel rarely, if ever, crashes for me, and usually it happens when I am trying
something unorthodox, searching for a solution to a problem posted in this group.

I don't assume you are an idiot, just that you are frustrated with a less than
perfect solution. It's possible that what you are trying to do is better suited
for a different tool. It's also possible that a fresh set of eyes would help
eliminate some of the problems you are encountering.


msnyc07 wrote:
I blame the hammer when the head falls off when I am using it or the claws
chip and blind me. I blame the hammer when the hammer maker knows that is
the case but keeps adding far less useful improvements. If you want to be
sycophants be my guest; the software is severely flawed and blaming me for
it's errors doesn't make it any better. I have friends who work for top
consulting firms and run into the very same frustrations I do and have had
projects compromised by the same issues. If it is easier to assume I am so
idiot who doesn't know what he is doing feel free to assume. It won't change
the facts.

"Glenn" wrote:


Do you blame the hammer when you hit your thumb instead of the nail?
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msnyc07 wrote:
Truly you should be ashamed of Excel. I couldn't even BEGIN to itemize or
describe the utter hell of working with this application and the literally
1000s of hours it has wasted of mine due to poor and sloppy programming.
2007??? This is like a first release. From the ridiculous non-standard
cut/paste cache, to the on-again off-again 'select all' that destroys sorts,
to the disappearing Freeze Top Pane, to the 'pervasive' recalculations that
don't turn off no matter what you do and d RUIN work, to the DAILY crashes
and the need to dig through pages of work and formulas to figure out where
you left off. I'd expect this from an offshore coder I hired for $8 not
Microsoft. I am done. Here's a clue; fix the core components before adding
new features. Because you are just building on a rotten foundation.

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