sheet not calculating a "=index" formula that referes to a cell that has been changed by find and replace
I have a fairly large spreadsheet wherein a column of cells refers to an adjacent cell to lookup.
=INDEX(Return_value_range,
I then noticed that one particular value in the "Lookup_value" cells needed to be modified so I ran a Find and Replace on the column to change a text value of "00000142" to "142". After that the formula that refers to the modified cell gives a result of "#N/A" and only if I "edit" the referenced cell (not changing anything but just using F2 to access the cell contents and then pressing enter. This would be ok if there were just a few, but there are over 1000 cells that need to be recalculated. I tried to "copy special" the entire column over itself using different options none of which made any difference. Of course, I also tried just recalculating the sheet and I exited/entered Excel all to no avail. Is there anyway to get these cells to be correctly referenced?
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Ingeborg Hawighorst (Microsoft MVP / EE MVE)
You could select the column, then do a Find/Replace and replace all = signs with = signs. Make sure to find inside formulas, not values. That will recalculate all formulas.
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Although Wayne's comment didn't do the trick, it did give me an idea on how to fix it. I figured I'd share the credit.