While developing a spreadsheet I noticed that the "Save" window kept popping
up even though no changes had been made to the sheet. After a lengthy
investigation I tracked to problem to the OFFSET function. I had just
replaced several LOOKUP functions with OFFSET functions: which I considered
would be faster. When I went back to the lookup functions the "Save" window
quit popping up. I did some experiments on a separate spreadsheet with the
same results. I placed a test message in the "Calculate" event and
determined that when the OFFSET function was used, anomalous "Calculate"
events were being generated. For example double-clicking on a row or column
to check the height or width caused a calulation when I released my finger
after the second click (but not before). I have since created my own offset
function in visual basic which works perfectly and does not cause any
anomalous events and the "Save" pop-up does not occur, unless of course I
make a change to the sheet. I'm using Excel 2003.

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