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8 months ago
The instruction under "Zoek en zoek de cel in Circular Reference" was very-very-very helpful !
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MS-Help does not give this solution.
How to find and locate circular reference in Excel quickly?
When you apply a formula in a cell, says Cell C1, and the formula refers back to its own cell directly or indirectly, says =Sum (A1:C1), circular reference happens.
When you reopen this workbook with circular reference again, it pops up a circular reference error message, which warns formulas contains a circular reference and may not calculate correctly. See the following screenshot:
It tells what is the problem, however, it does not say where the error stays in. If you click the OK button, the warning error message will be closed, but it will pop up next time when you reopen the workbook; if you click the Help button, it will bring you to the Help document.
Find out and locate the cell in Status bar
Find out and locate the cell in Circular Reference
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Find out and locate the cell in Status bar
You can find the circular reference in the Status bar.
Find out and locate the cell in Circular Reference
Actually, you can find out and locate the cell with circular reference in Excel with following steps:
Step 1: Go to the Formula Auditing group under the Formula tab.
Step 2: Click the Arrow button besides the Error Checking button.
Step 3: Move mouse over the Circular References item in the drop down list, and it shows the cells with circular references. See the following screenshot:
Step 4: Click the cell address listed besides the Circular References, it selects the cell with circular reference at once.
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· 10 months agoLocating the Cell In Circular Reference was nicely explained with steps........... I fixed the error..... thank you very much
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· 1 years agoThank you! Simple and short explanation, without writing a ton of paragraphs of why finding circular references is important :)
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· 1 years agothank you, I thought it would be even simpler by just clicking on the statement in the status bar. your explanation was spot on.
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· 1 years agoThank you for your supplement!!!
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· 1 years agoThank you. I have been looking for the error for two hours and found it in 10 minutes with your help!
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· 2 years agoThanks for help. This is an increase in my knowledge.
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· 2 years agoHi, thanks for the instructions - but the lower entry (Circular references) of the error checking list is grayed out. No luck in making it selectable - ever.
Error checking is not a properly working feature of Excel generally. Had to switch off four of the selections under options, formular, error checking - otherwise these keept demanding changes to cells/formulars, which were fully correct.
A calculate command now takes 5 minutes - then the invisible checking for circular references begins - and takes another 2-3 minutes. Then you get one circular reference listed in the status line. Having studied that formular and tracked it, Excel says that the offset formular is a circular reference - but a direct reference to the resulting address is OK!
Have now spent a weeks time on trying to hunt down these spooks of circular references, which overload my PC entirely (20 minutes to do a save as command).
Trying to get help from Microsoft, I really like these helping words from Microsoft Support:
[i]While you're looking, check for indirect references. They happen when you put a formula in cell A1, and it uses another formula in B1 that in turn refers back to cell A1. [u]If this confuses you, imagine what it does to Excel.[/u][/i]
Poor Excel, bad user(s) ...
If it is only me being unsuccesfull in solving the circular references problems - then I'm happy for all of you ... Otherwise, a little bit of confort to you, keep fighting - there must be a way to manage this degrading of error management in Excel 2013. But using Microsoft Office has opened up another cost account for my job ... -
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· 2 years agoawesome! Thank you!:-* :-* :-*
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· 2 years agoShort sweet answer. Popped up on Google right under MS support which I routinely skip past. Thanks!!!
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· 2 years agoThank you for saving my entire life and removing that burden of looking for errors.
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· 2 years agoYou eased my headache.
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· 2 years agoThank you, hard to find the solution but easy to fix. Your guidance was right on.
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· 2 years agoThank you so much!!!!
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· 4 years agoThanks a million ;)very helpful & easy to follow instructions.
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· 4 years agothanks a lot Admin i am happy with solution
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· 4 years agoYou just saved me a ton of time. Thank-you so much.
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· 4 years agoSo easy once you learn it. :roll: Thank you!!
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· 4 years agoAwesome! So clear it fixed up my problem and saved me tons of time browsing through sheets and sheets looking for it manually!
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· 4 years agovery nice and quick. thanks.
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· 5 years agoTHANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was diving me crazy!!!!!!!!
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· 5 years agoI have this same warning popping up when I open a workbook.
However, I have checked each sheet within the workbook and no sheet reports a circular reference. I have even executed the Formula Auditing=>Error Checking individually on each sheet and no sheet reports a circular reference. It's only reported when I open the workbook. Any ideas on how to find out what excel is complaining about on open?-
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· 4 years ago[quote name="Chuck"]I have this same warning popping up when I open a workbook.
However, I have checked each sheet within the workbook and no sheet reports a circular reference. I have even executed the Formula Auditing=>Error Checking individually on each sheet and no sheet reports a circular reference. It's only reported when I open the workbook. Any ideas on how to find out what excel is complaining about on open?[/quote]
Great expression - thanks
I have the same - circular reference warning on recalc since I copied this expression to a range in my worksheet. -
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· 4 years ago[quote name="Chuck"]I have this same warning popping up when I open a workbook.
However, I have checked each sheet within the workbook and no sheet reports a circular reference. I have even executed the Formula Auditing=>Error Checking individually on each sheet and no sheet reports a circular reference. It's only reported when I open the workbook. Any ideas on how to find out what excel is complaining about on open?[/quote]
Same here - circular ref warnings started appearing when ever there is a recalculation, just after I added this fab example in a large range on my work sheet.
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· 5 years agoThanks. Have been reading that stupid error for weeks and first solution I found was yours and the directions were super simple.
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· 5 years agoThanks for the quick fix
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· 5 years agoMany Thanks, solved in two minutes!! :lol:
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· 5 years agoThanks, clear and simple instruction for an irritating problem :-)
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· 5 years agoThanks for the help. Saved me hours going through all the sheets
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· 5 years agoGREAT stuff, quick n easy, also easy the stress :lol:
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· 5 years agoYou fixed my HEACACHE!! :-)
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· 5 years agoAwesome stuff :)
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· 5 years agoThank you so much. You saved my life.
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· 5 years agoThank you, this was annoying me greatly
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· 5 years agoU saved me,Thank you
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· 5 years agoExcellent...easy peasy now. Thanks!
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· 5 years agoTHANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!
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· 5 years agoExcellent advice, spreadsheet is a lot tidier now :)
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· 5 years agothanks a lot mate for your advice
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· 5 years agoThis is a lovely and useful tip. Thanks
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· 5 years agothanks SO much. i was about to re-do the whole file when i stumbled upon this!
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· 5 years agoAwesome! You saved my day! :lol:
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· 5 years agoThis was excatly what I needed and your tip was wonderful.
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· 5 years agoPerfectly explained and exactly what I needed! Thank you!
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· 5 years agoBrilliant save me so much time. Tried MS help rubbish unless you knew where it was. :-*
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· 5 years agoThis was exactly the reply I was searching.... Thanks
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· 5 years agoThis indeed solved my worries, also it saved me from probable and possible disasters that might happen due to circualar reference errors.
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· 5 years agoTHNAK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
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· 5 years agoThanks much! VERY helpful!
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· 5 years agoTHANKS....
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· 5 years ago:-) Big simile... quick and easy way.. thanks..
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· 5 years agoJust what I needed, and in such a clear, precise manner.
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· 5 years agoCould not agree more with the comment of "inquirer" - you are my saviour indeed !
It is really stupid of Microsoft to only give the warning in the pop up message and not inform on how to find the circ. reference. I had a big excel file and it was taking several minutes to open each time because of this circ. reference problem.
Thanks a lot !!
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