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How Bad Can Excel 2007 be?
Using the sum function in a blank cell to subtract one cell from another in
a row Excel keeps telling me I am using a circular reference and will not perform the calculation. If I move over one cell and enter the same formula all works as it should. Unbelievable: I think Excel is probably the cause of the stock market meltdown because this dog can't hunt. |
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Can you pl. let us know the cells you are entering the formula and the
formula you are trying to enter? "bmoag" wrote: Using the sum function in a blank cell to subtract one cell from another in a row Excel keeps telling me I am using a circular reference and will not perform the calculation. If I move over one cell and enter the same formula all works as it should. Unbelievable: I think Excel is probably the cause of the stock market meltdown because this dog can't hunt. |
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There are quite a few people who don't like Excel 2007.
However, what you describe doesn't sound like any of of the known complaints. What exactly are your formulas (in which cells) and what are your input values? And, by the way, what are you trying to accomplish that makes you use circular references? -- Kind regards, Niek Otten Microsoft MVP - Excel "bmoag" wrote in message ... Using the sum function in a blank cell to subtract one cell from another in a row Excel keeps telling me I am using a circular reference and will not perform the calculation. If I move over one cell and enter the same formula all works as it should. Unbelievable: I think Excel is probably the cause of the stock market meltdown because this dog can't hunt. |
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Post the formula and the cell in which it is entered. A Circular Reference is not necessarily a direct, one-step relationship. A formula may reference another formula that references another formula, and so on to quite a depth. The round trip from a formula back to itself may be quite long and complex, and without careful examination, a formula may appear not to be circular but in fact really is once you plumb the depths. I've never heard of XL2007 having problems with the identification of circular references. Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP Excel Product Group Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com (email on web site) On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:11:34 -0800, "bmoag" wrote: Using the sum function in a blank cell to subtract one cell from another in a row Excel keeps telling me I am using a circular reference and will not perform the calculation. If I move over one cell and enter the same formula all works as it should. Unbelievable: I think Excel is probably the cause of the stock market meltdown because this dog can't hunt. |
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Why would you use SUM to "subtract one cell from another" ?
best wishes -- Bernard V Liengme Microsoft Excel MVP http://people.stfx.ca/bliengme remove caps from email "bmoag" wrote in message ... Using the sum function in a blank cell to subtract one cell from another in a row Excel keeps telling me I am using a circular reference and will not perform the calculation. If I move over one cell and enter the same formula all works as it should. Unbelievable: I think Excel is probably the cause of the stock market meltdown because this dog can't hunt. |
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