> Remember that what I am changing when the error message crops up is numeric
> data, not formulas. It is data in a table that other cells do a series of
> IF-VLOOKUP statements on. And this has all worked perfectly for forever in
> Excel 2004 on the Mac and various Excel versions under Windows.<
The only time I've seen this is when a dynamic range defined via
Insert/Name/Define expanded a range beyond the expected area, causing a
CR.
Any dynamic ranges?
The checkbox is labeled "Limit Iteration" in 2008, but only "Iteration" in 2004. Is that performing the same function in both cases? In any event, it is unchecked in both versions.
Duncan
> I'm also getting this on one of my sheets I used successfully in 2004. It's
> buggin.
What are the cell contents for the cells in the Circular Reference
toolbar's Navigate Circular Reference dropdown control?
Duncan,
I too have just realized that the circular reference I have been
chasing for the past day in Excel 2008 isn't real. I did the same
test. I opened the same worksheet in Excel 2004 and then the blank
template, created a couple of years ago, in both Excel 2004 and Excel
2008. The erroneous circular reference appeared in Excel 2008, but not
in 2007 when opening the unchanged template.
I also have Excel 2007 running in Vista on my Mac. After the updates
finish installing, I will try Excel 2007. If I do not place another
post, assume that Excel 2007 did not present the same circular
reference.
Bob
I know I said I wouldn't reply if Excel 2007 did not present the same
circular reference, but when I opened the same template in Excel 2007,
there was no circular reference.
Bob
"There is a circular reference in an open workbook, but the references that caused it cannot be listed for you."
I have checked and double checked my calcs and I'd be happy to send it to you for looking over.
We are looking into reports of this problem. If you could send me a file
that shows the problem, it would be a great help. (patm...@microsoft.com)
Thanks,
Pat
On 3/24/08 7:58 AM, in article ee8bf...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Gary
Loch" <ga...@presentias.com> wrote:
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Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
The only thing I can think of is that it might be associated with the
Analysis Toolpak add-in that is no longer present in 2008. I believe the
only formula I used from the Toolpak is the EOMONTH() formula. This
particular workbook contains 28 worksheets and also contains proprietary
information, so I cannot send it to you. The other thing that might be
unique about this workbook is that it is password protected. Don't know that
it matters, but I thought I'd throw it in there because the previous post was
also dealing with proprietary info and his sheet might also be password
protected.
Now I can tell you that I was able to clear the problem, but I cannot
pinpoint any specific logic as to why the problem cleared or even occurred.
After clicking around, I was able to get one sheet to actually disclose the
cell which was supposedly the source of the circular reference. Other sheets
simply stated the word Circular with no specific reference to a cell.
After running the audit function (which now erroneously draws precedent lines
to cells on the same worksheet that are actually on a separate sheet-- rather
than drawing a line to a spreadsheet icon that identifies the correct sheet),
I verified that this was NOT a circular reference. So, I deleted the
supposedly offending cell, copied the adjacent formula over it (which created
the identical formula which I had just deleted), and the circular reference
errors disappeared.
I saved the workbook, and reopened it. All seems fine. Also opened it in
Excel 2003 on PC, and it worked fine.
Hope that helps in some way. Hope you MS figures it out and releases a patch
soon!
John
Pat McMillan wrote:
>Hi Gary,
>
>We are looking into reports of this problem. If you could send me a file
>that shows the problem, it would be a great help. (patm...@microsoft.com)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pat
>
>On 3/24/08 7:58 AM, in article ee8bf...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Gary
>Loch" <ga...@presentias.com> wrote:
>
>> If it's not too late to add my erroneous circular reference issue... this is
>> the message I'm getting:
>[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
Pat
On 3/25/08 7:06 PM, in article 81b6028109746@uwe, "Bizzuka" <u42420@uwe>
wrote:
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My Excel workbook from Office 2003 contains over thirty sheets, all of them
are interlinked. I wish I there were a way I could pinpoint the formula
which is causing the problem, but as you've said, t
I have eighteen of these workbooks, with crucial data in all of them.
Whenever I open one of these workbooks, I get the message:
"There is a circular reference in an open workbook, but the references that
caused it cannot be listed for you. Try editing the last formula you entered
or removing it with the Undo command (edit menu)."
I never had this problem running my Windows-based Office. I have downloaded
Open Office and it reads my workbooks fine, as does iWork's 2008 Numbers. I
have paid a premium for Office 2008, but I cannot use Excel.
Does anyone have a fix for this?
Bizzuka:
I appreciate that you have found a way around this, but I cannot possibly go
through all my formulas hoping to find the one that is causing the problem.
The error checking utility comes up with:
"The formula in this cell refers to cells that are currently empty."
Which is yet another problem I've never had with other programs running this
very same workbook.
The circular reference toolbar is of no help. It points to a formula and an
empty cell. The exclamation mark on the formula states: "The formula in
this cell refers to cells that are currently empty."
I'm at wit's end with this.
Help!
I believe that this is a known issue with Excel 2008. Try saving and using
the workbook as an xls file. Hopefully there will be a fix coming.
Also, Mac Excel file has another problem as explained below. No problems at all when I use MS Excel 2003.
1) If I change depreciation year for fixed asset #5 (i.e. from 5 years to 10 years), Mac Excel will not respond. I have to force quit.
2) If I include depreciation of fixed asset #4 and #5, Mac Excel will not respond too.
3) I noticed that when I use "Trace Precedents" in Mac Excel, the Trace Precedents reported wrong cell. Instead of pointing to the cell in another sheet (this is correct), it points to cell in the same sheet too (this is wrong as I don't have formula link from it). Please tell Mac Excel team about this problem.
As a result, I gave up using Mac Excel and use MS Excel right now.
Thanks,
Pat
On 5/4/08 11:38 PM, in article ee8bf...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"kanj...@officeformac.com" <kanj...@officeformac.com> wrote:
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I am still trying to pare down the sheet to something that exhibits the problem but does not contain all our proprietary stuff. The size of the workbook may in fact be part of the problem. It's not outrageous, but it is 16 sheets, some of which have over 300 rows and a few dozen columns.
Duncan
Regarding the erroneous circular reference problem: We tried to get a fix
into SP1 but didn't quite make the deadline for that release. We are testing
a fix now and hope to release it as soon as possible. If you can provide me
with a file that reproduces the problem, I can add it to our testing matrix,
just to be sure. Please send to patm...@microsoft.com.
Regarding the bogus compatibility errors: Thanks for the report! I'll be
posting a bug for that and we will consider it for a future update.
Regarding the update issue with cell references: I'll look into that one and
post a bug if we don't already have one. I'll let you know if I need more
info, but it looks like you've done your homework already!
Thanks again,
Pat
On 5/14/08 9:56 AM, in article ee8bf...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"fro...@officeformac.com" <fro...@officeformac.com> wrote:
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Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
With regard to the problem of the linked cell not updating, it looks like I
am going to need more information from you, or some files to repro this.
Following your general steps, and using fairly small tab delimited data
sets, I don't see this problem. When I paste the data into a range on sheet2
that overlaps the cell linked to from sheet1, then the value of the cell on
sheet1 updates as expected. It could be that the problem you're seeing is
related to the size of the data being pasted, the size of the range you're
pasting into, the type of data in the source or destination range, or
something different. Is there any chance you could share an Excel file and
text file that reproduces this? If you can, please send it to me at
patm...@microsoft.com.
Thanks,
Pat
On 5/14/08 9:56 AM, in article ee8bf...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"fro...@officeformac.com" <fro...@officeformac.com> wrote:
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Pat McMillan
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft Corp.
This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Let me know and I will send it,
Joel
Pat McMillan wrote:
>Hi again, Duncan.
>
>With regard to the problem of the linked cell not updating, it looks like I
>am going to need more information from you, or some files to repro this.
>Following your general steps, and using fairly small tab delimited data
>sets, I don't see this problem. When I paste the data into a range on sheet2
>that overlaps the cell linked to from sheet1, then the value of the cell on
>sheet1 updates as expected. It could be that the problem you're seeing is
>related to the size of the data being pasted, the size of the range you're
>pasting into, the type of data in the source or destination range, or
>something different. Is there any chance you could share an Excel file and
>text file that reproduces this? If you can, please send it to me at
>patm...@microsoft.com.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pat
>
>On 5/14/08 9:56 AM, in article ee8bf...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
>
>> I just downloaded and installed SP1 and my circular reference problem still
>> exists.
>[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>>
>> Duncan
>
If it's the erroneous circular reference issue, we don't need any more files
for that. We have a fix ready that we hope we will be able to release soon
to solve the problem.
Thanks,
Pat
On 5/25/08 5:28 PM, in article 84b41a48c20ff@uwe, "JoelR" <u43825@uwe>
wrote:
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Joel
Pat McMillan wrote:
>Thanks Joel. Can you tell me which problem you're referring to? The
>erroneous circular reference problem or the issue of certain linked cells
>not updating when pasting data over the source range?
>
>If it's the erroneous circular reference issue, we don't need any more files
>for that. We have a fix ready that we hope we will be able to release soon
>to solve the problem.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pat
>
>On 5/25/08 5:28 PM, in article 84b41a48c20ff@uwe, "JoelR" <u43825@uwe>
>wrote:
>
>> Pat and Duncan, I too am having this same problem and have tried numerous
>> things to fix it with no success. I would be more than happy to send my
>[quoted text clipped - 30 lines]
>>>>
>>>> Duncan
>
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