I created a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 to track fat, carb, and protein
calories from various foods, then add them up. For a while, it would change
the total at the bottom of each column automatically. Then it stopped. Each
column now has to be recalculateds manually (by re-entering the formula)
every time I enter new data. Also, when I copy the formula, the cell window
shows the revised formula, but the total at the bottom is the absolute value
of the cell I was copying from--in other words, suppose the formula for n36
is =sum(n1:n35) and the total is 235. If I copy it to column p, the formula
shown is =sum(p1:p35), but the total is still 235. This is tedious and
frustrating. How can I get back to automatic recalculation?
--BTW, there's no problem in the rows, only the columns.

Hi,

did you check that Tools, Options, Calculations was set to Automatic?



Twrchtrwyth Wrote:
I created a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 to track fat, carb, and protein
calories from various foods, then add them up. For a while, it would
change
the total at the bottom of each column automatically. Then it stopped.
Each
column now has to be recalculateds manually (by re-entering the
formula)
every time I enter new data. Also, when I copy the formula, the cell
window
shows the revised formula, but the total at the bottom is the absolute
value
of the cell I was copying from--in other words, suppose the formula for
n36
is =sum(n1:n35) and the total is 235. If I copy it to column p, the
formula
shown is =sum(p1:p35), but the total is still 235. This is tedious and
frustrating. How can I get back to automatic recalculation?
--BTW, there's no problem in the rows, only the columns.


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Hi, Bryan:
Yes,
ToolsOptionsCalculations is set to automatic.

"Bryan Hessey" wrote:


Hi,

did you check that Tools, Options, Calculations was set to Automatic?



Twrchtrwyth Wrote:
I created a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 to track fat, carb, and protein
calories from various foods, then add them up. For a while, it would
change
the total at the bottom of each column automatically. Then it stopped.
Each
column now has to be recalculateds manually (by re-entering the
formula)
every time I enter new data. Also, when I copy the formula, the cell
window
shows the revised formula, but the total at the bottom is the absolute
value
of the cell I was copying from--in other words, suppose the formula for
n36
is =sum(n1:n35) and the total is 235. If I copy it to column p, the
formula
shown is =sum(p1:p35), but the total is still 235. This is tedious and
frustrating. How can I get back to automatic recalculation?
--BTW, there's no problem in the rows, only the columns.


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Hi,

Sorry, but am not aware of any other reason that would do that, . . . I
presume that your PC is not utilsed 100% (press CTRL/ALT/Del to bring up
Windows Task Manager, and select the Performance tag to see the % used,
. . . then select Processes tag and click the CPU column heading
(twice?) to show in order of the high usage processes, 'Idle' should
claim the highest usage)

Perhaps another has a better idea.



Twrchtrwyth Wrote:
Hi, Bryan:
Yes,
ToolsOptionsCalculations is set to automatic.

"Bryan Hessey" wrote:


Hi,

did you check that Tools, Options, Calculations was set to
Automatic?



Twrchtrwyth Wrote:
I created a spreadsheet in Excel 2003 to track fat, carb, and
protein
calories from various foods, then add them up. For a while, it
would
change
the total at the bottom of each column automatically. Then it
stopped.
Each
column now has to be recalculateds manually (by re-entering the
formula)
every time I enter new data. Also, when I copy the formula, the
cell
window
shows the revised formula, but the total at the bottom is the
absolute
value
of the cell I was copying from--in other words, suppose the formula
for
n36
is =sum(n1:n35) and the total is 235. If I copy it to column p,
the
formula
shown is =sum(p1:p35), but the total is still 235. This is tedious
and
frustrating. How can I get back to automatic recalculation?
--BTW, there's no problem in the rows, only the columns.


--
Bryan Hessey

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