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Urgent! Help needed for Excel
Hi all,
I need your help. I have an Excel sheet, where we used a 3rd party API and called a function. So each cell has a function call to retrieve some data from some database. We have successfully collected data from the database. And we now no longer have access to the computer which is equipped with the API and database, due to expiration of trial period. And after we collected data, and back at home, we opened the Excel sheet on a computer that does not have API installed and does not have access to the database, only to find "#NAME?" displayed in all the cells. Basically, because the 3rd command/function cannot be run on this computer, all the collected data are now gone, and we only see "#NAME?" error message. This is super inconvenient and we should have copied and pasted the collected numbers as "numbers" into a separate Excel sheet. Due to inexperience of using Excel, we forgot to do that. And we don't have access to the 3rd party command/API as well as the database any more, due to expiration of trial period. Any remedies? Please give us help! Thanks a lot for your help! Really appreciate it. |
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Urgent! Help needed for Excel
Try turning calculation to manual, THEN open the workbook. If you see
numbers, copy/paste special values, and you're all set. HTH Bob Umlas Excel MVP "LunaMoon" wrote: Hi all, I need your help. I have an Excel sheet, where we used a 3rd party API and called a function. So each cell has a function call to retrieve some data from some database. We have successfully collected data from the database. And we now no longer have access to the computer which is equipped with the API and database, due to expiration of trial period. And after we collected data, and back at home, we opened the Excel sheet on a computer that does not have API installed and does not have access to the database, only to find "#NAME?" displayed in all the cells. Basically, because the 3rd command/function cannot be run on this computer, all the collected data are now gone, and we only see "#NAME?" error message. This is super inconvenient and we should have copied and pasted the collected numbers as "numbers" into a separate Excel sheet. Due to inexperience of using Excel, we forgot to do that. And we don't have access to the 3rd party command/API as well as the database any more, due to expiration of trial period. Any remedies? Please give us help! Thanks a lot for your help! Really appreciate it. |
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If Bob's solution doesn't work, you may want to try this registry tweak posted
by Jim Rech: http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...GP11.phx .gbl LunaMoon wrote: Hi all, I need your help. I have an Excel sheet, where we used a 3rd party API and called a function. So each cell has a function call to retrieve some data from some database. We have successfully collected data from the database. And we now no longer have access to the computer which is equipped with the API and database, due to expiration of trial period. And after we collected data, and back at home, we opened the Excel sheet on a computer that does not have API installed and does not have access to the database, only to find "#NAME?" displayed in all the cells. Basically, because the 3rd command/function cannot be run on this computer, all the collected data are now gone, and we only see "#NAME?" error message. This is super inconvenient and we should have copied and pasted the collected numbers as "numbers" into a separate Excel sheet. Due to inexperience of using Excel, we forgot to do that. And we don't have access to the 3rd party command/API as well as the database any more, due to expiration of trial period. Any remedies? Please give us help! Thanks a lot for your help! Really appreciate it. -- Dave Peterson |
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On Dec 22, 10:26*am, Bob Umlas, Excel MVP
wrote: Try turning calculation to manual, THEN open the workbook. If you see numbers, copy/paste special values, and you're all set. HTH Bob Umlas Excel MVP I set the option to "manual" and open the Excel file, it automatically turn the option back to "auto". What can I do? |
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On Dec 22, 11:29*am, Dave Peterson wrote:
If Bob's solution doesn't work, you may want to try this registry tweak posted by Jim Rech: http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...4%40TK2MSFTNGP.... Thanks. The problem is that I am using Office 2003 and Office 2007. The file was saved as Office 2003 version from within Office 2007. The link above discussed about Office 2000. I am worried. |
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Urgent! Help needed for Excel
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Ex cel\Options
That 9.0 is for xl2k use 10.0 for xl2002 11.0 for xl2003 12.0 for xl2007 If you're worried, write down all the changes you make to the registry before you make them--or backup the registry before you start. LunaMoon wrote: On Dec 22, 11:29 am, Dave Peterson wrote: If Bob's solution doesn't work, you may want to try this registry tweak posted by Jim Rech: http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...4%40TK2MSFTNGP... Thanks. The problem is that I am using Office 2003 and Office 2007. The file was saved as Office 2003 version from within Office 2007. The link above discussed about Office 2000. I am worried. -- Dave Peterson |
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