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Default Excel false positives for circular refs and not updating calculations

I created an Excel 2007 workbook w/ hundreds of formulas and large
enough amounts of data to require using manual calculations turned on
to edit at all. At some point during my development I noticed Excel
didn't seem to completely calculate everything when asked, and turning
to Automatic calc doesn't fix it. It doesn't crash, and even finishes
w/n 5 minutes or so when calculating. But it clearly doesn't update
everything. I can tell this by going into a cell's formula bar and
pressing enter, which does update the value (in most cases, sometimes
it doesn't).

I notice I'm also getting circular references warnings where they
clearly do not exist, for instance, for cells that refer to other
cells that do not refer back to them.

Has anyone had such an issue? I'm use to Excel crashing when I push it
too hard, but this is completely new and much more dangerous. I can't
feel certain about any of my calculations!

BTW, I typically do split up my work in smaller Excel files, but in
this instance, it will cost me dearly to have to split any of it up.

Thanks for any help,
K
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As an update, I see where the problems start, which is in Col P of a
given sheet (A thru O are fine), about 615 rows down. This is
meaningful b/c I used some test data to develop the xlsx file that was
this many rows down. To prepare for the largest data sets I'll be
inputting once the workbook functions properly, I later made it so all
formulas are present to row 6000 and only return a value if the data I
input goes that far down. But there's no reason for it not to update
that I know of.

The formula for each cell (from row 2 to 6000) in Col P is {=MAX(IF(K
$1:K$6000=K467,O$1:O$6000,""))}, where this example is the formula for
cell P467. K467 in the formula would be K468 at cell P468.

This formula is obviously an array formula but is a different array
formula for each single cell in Col P (that is, I only have one cell
selected when I press Ctrl-Shift-Enter). I can only assume it's just
too large for Excel to handle 6000 different arrays in one column,
even though the formula itself is pretty simple. Anyway, this was my
attempt at getting something like a MAXIF function. If anyone has any
better ideas I'd appreciate it!

Thanks,
K
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OK, so I now see what's going on.

the arrays in Col P don't like the columns they reference due to the
'blank but not really blank cells. For instance, Col O at O5379 is
=IF(ISNUMBER(K5379),SQRT(L5379^2+M5379^2+N5379^2), ""). It's that ""
that I used to return blank cells that messes it up. Anyone know of a
way to avoid using "" and still keep cells blank (hopefully w/o using
VBA since I never get it working right)?

Sorry to keep updating, but I keep thinking of ways to get at it after
I post.

Thanks again,
K
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