#VALUE!
 

We have a spreadsheet with the following formula in a column of cells:
=B7+54-$E$3+K7
Column B contains a date, E3 contains the current date and K7 contains a
number of days. When a date is entered in column B, it calculates a new value
and deposits that value (a number of days) into the cell with the formula.
This works for every user but one. When he enters a date in a cell in column
B, the cell with the formula displays #VALUE! instead of a number. I have not
been able to figure out what is different about this user and any help would
be appreciated.
Thanks.

#VALUE!
 

Maybe the user is adding spaces before the date to make the column align and
look pretty!<g
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RD

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"Glenn" wrote in message
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We have a spreadsheet with the following formula in a column of cells:
=B7+54-$E$3+K7
Column B contains a date, E3 contains the current date and K7 contains a
number of days. When a date is entered in column B, it calculates a new
value
and deposits that value (a number of days) into the cell with the formula.
This works for every user but one. When he enters a date in a cell in
column
B, the cell with the formula displays #VALUE! instead of a number. I have
not
been able to figure out what is different about this user and any help
would
be appreciated.
Thanks.

#VALUE!
 

Perhaps his column B is formatted as text, so although the date may
look like a normal date it is in fact a text value and you cannot
perform any arithmetic on it. Just ensure that the cells in column B
are formatted as General (or as Date) before he enters any more dates.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 24, 4:45*pm, Glenn wrote:
We have a spreadsheet with the following formula in a column of cells:
=B7+54-$E$3+K7
Column B contains a date, E3 contains the current date and K7 contains a
number of days. When a date is entered in column B, it calculates a new value
and deposits that value (a number of days) into the cell with the formula.
This works for every user but one. When he enters a date in a cell in column
B, the cell with the formula displays #VALUE! instead of a number. I have not
been able to figure out what is different about this user and any help would
be appreciated.
Thanks.

#VALUE!
 

Or he may have different Windows regional settings, so if he tries to enter
a date as 24/12/2007 or 12/24/2007, depending on the settings, it may not be
recognised as a date. [And if he enters 2/1/2008 or 1/2/2008 it may be
interpreted as the wrong date.]
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David Biddulph

"Pete_UK" wrote in message
...
Perhaps his column B is formatted as text, so although the date may
look like a normal date it is in fact a text value and you cannot
perform any arithmetic on it. Just ensure that the cells in column B
are formatted as General (or as Date) before he enters any more dates.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 24, 4:45 pm, Glenn wrote:
We have a spreadsheet with the following formula in a column of cells:
=B7+54-$E$3+K7
Column B contains a date, E3 contains the current date and K7 contains a
number of days. When a date is entered in column B, it calculates a new
value
and deposits that value (a number of days) into the cell with the formula.
This works for every user but one. When he enters a date in a cell in
column
B, the cell with the formula displays #VALUE! instead of a number. I have
not
been able to figure out what is different about this user and any help
would
be appreciated.
Thanks.

#VALUE!
 

On my XL97 machine, pre-formatting B7 to text, *and* preceding the date
entry with an apostrophe, *still* returned a proper calculation.
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RD

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"Pete_UK" wrote in message
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Perhaps his column B is formatted as text, so although the date may
look like a normal date it is in fact a text value and you cannot
perform any arithmetic on it. Just ensure that the cells in column B
are formatted as General (or as Date) before he enters any more dates.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 24, 4:45 pm, Glenn wrote:
We have a spreadsheet with the following formula in a column of cells:
=B7+54-$E$3+K7
Column B contains a date, E3 contains the current date and K7 contains a
number of days. When a date is entered in column B, it calculates a new
value
and deposits that value (a number of days) into the cell with the formula.
This works for every user but one. When he enters a date in a cell in
column
B, the cell with the formula displays #VALUE! instead of a number. I have
not
been able to figure out what is different about this user and any help
would
be appreciated.
Thanks.

#VALUE!
 

=B7+54-$E$3+K7

Even if all 3 referenced cells were preformatted as TEXT the calculation
would still return the correct result (although it would also be a TEXT
number). So, there's something else going on. Leading/trailing spaces. See
David's reply about regional date settings.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Pete_UK" wrote in message
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Perhaps his column B is formatted as text, so although the date may
look like a normal date it is in fact a text value and you cannot
perform any arithmetic on it. Just ensure that the cells in column B
are formatted as General (or as Date) before he enters any more dates.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Dec 24, 4:45 pm, Glenn wrote:
We have a spreadsheet with the following formula in a column of cells:
=B7+54-$E$3+K7
Column B contains a date, E3 contains the current date and K7 contains a
number of days. When a date is entered in column B, it calculates a new
value
and deposits that value (a number of days) into the cell with the formula.
This works for every user but one. When he enters a date in a cell in
column
B, the cell with the formula displays #VALUE! instead of a number. I have
not
been able to figure out what is different about this user and any help
would
be appreciated.
Thanks.