Hi all,

I posted this to no avail late June and now I'm in trouble with my project
and would be really keen for some help!

Summary of problem:
I have a spreadsheet with custom views.
When my users selects a custom view, the tab seems to do forced recalculate
INCLUDING externally links even if I said 'don't update' when i opened the
spreadsheet

This problem ruins my approach and I need to either:
a. confirm this is a bug in excel and find a work-around
or
b. confirm this is supposed to happen (I can't imagine why it should though)
and find a work-around

Any ideas gratefully received.

Thanks

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Detailed Background
I have some formulas in a tab looking up data from an external
workbook.

As usual, if the external workbook is open, there is no issue; but with
the source data workbook closed, I get the usual #N/A link

Nothing unusual so far

When I open up the workbook and say 'Dont update' to external links, as
expected, I see the last data that was in the spreadsheet when I
saved/closed it.

I can use the spreadsheet with no issues at all.

On the tab, there is a filter. I can change the filter, play around it
with, no issue

However, I have a custom view with filter settings saved in it.

When I select the custom view - BANG.
All the #N/As are back. For some reason, selecting the custom view
seems to be refreshing the data in my externally linked values

Have you tried changing calculations from auto to manual?

Then a change of "View" will *not* calculate the WB.
You could then hit <F9 to calculate the *entire* WB,
OR ...
<Shift <F9 to calculate *only* the active sheet.
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HTH,

RD

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Hi all,

I posted this to no avail late June and now I'm in trouble with my project
and would be really keen for some help!

Summary of problem:
I have a spreadsheet with custom views.
When my users selects a custom view, the tab seems to do forced
recalculate
INCLUDING externally links even if I said 'don't update' when i opened the
spreadsheet

This problem ruins my approach and I need to either:
a. confirm this is a bug in excel and find a work-around
or
b. confirm this is supposed to happen (I can't imagine why it should
though)
and find a work-around

Any ideas gratefully received.

Thanks

-----------------------------------------
Detailed Background
I have some formulas in a tab looking up data from an external
workbook.

As usual, if the external workbook is open, there is no issue; but with
the source data workbook closed, I get the usual #N/A link

Nothing unusual so far

When I open up the workbook and say 'Dont update' to external links, as
expected, I see the last data that was in the spreadsheet when I
saved/closed it.

I can use the spreadsheet with no issues at all.

On the tab, there is a filter. I can change the filter, play around it
with, no issue

However, I have a custom view with filter settings saved in it.

When I select the custom view - BANG.
All the #N/As are back. For some reason, selecting the custom view
seems to be refreshing the data in my externally linked values