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SUMIF function error
I have a table where Column 7 contains the "Due Date" of the value in Column 9. Some of the "Due Dates are in the future (outside the reporting date) so I created the following formula: =SUMIF((R5C9:R15C9),(R5C7:R15C7<=Max_Due_Date),R18C12) to obtain the total amount within the reporting period -- i.e. less than or equal to the last date in the reporting period (a named item containing the calculated date of the first of the current month, plus the number of days in the month, minus 1), and want the result in Row 18 Column 12. I get the error code "SPILL#", with a "hatched lines" box immediately below the formula cell. I am not trying to get a Pivot Table, as suggested by the unhelpful "Help"! I have used "SUMIF" many times in the past without problems. H E L P , pleaseSolved60Views0likes6CommentsExcel + IRM: Allow VBA to edit protected cells / insert rows without granting "Full Control"
We have a corporate Excel workbook used for IT service pricing that contains sensitive data. To protect this information, we enabled IRM (Information Rights Management), restricting access to our corporate domain without granting the “Full Control” permission, and enabled programmatic access to allow VBA automation. Goals Prevent the workbook from being shared or opened outside the company domain; Keep certain sheets, rows, and columns protected (formulas, formatting, etc.); Allow VBA macros to edit protected cells, insert new rows, and update contents without unprotecting the sheet — or, alternatively, to temporarily unprotect and reprotect via VBA. Issue Even with IRM enabled and programmatic access allowed, VBA cannot write to protected cells or insert rows. If the user has “Full Control” permission under IRM, everything works — but then the user can also disable IRM protection, which defeats the security purpose. Question Is there any additional configuration, specific permission, or MIP/DLP policy that allows VBA to perform full programmatic operations within the domain without requiring “Full Control” for users? Environment Microsoft 365 E3 Excel Desktop (64-bit) IRM/MIP enabled via Microsoft Purview Stored on SharePoint Online Suggested tags (add via the forum UI) Excel, VBA, IRM, Microsoft Purview, MIP, DLP, SharePoint Online, Information ProtectionSolved62Views0likes4CommentsAsking for Using a work account (Business Basic) in Outlook Home Version
I have the Home version of Office built into my Windows laptop and am already using it with a personal account. I plan to subscribe to Business Basic. Can my Business Basic account be used with the Home version of Office? Perhaps I could sign out of my personal account and then sign in with my Business Basic work account. Are there any implications if I do that? Or do you have any suggestions? Thank youSolved50Views0likes2CommentsIn Excel cut and paste may change the cell range set in a formula
I have an Excel sheet where I defined a sum of four cells with SUM($A$2:$D$2): A B C D SUM 1 2 3 4 10 The issue I noticed is that if user selects cell A2 and then cut it and paste it to another cell within the range, the formula in E2 changes to SUM($B$2:$D$2), i.e. the cell A2 gets omitted from the sum. The same happens when cutting cell D2 on the other end of the range. Is there a way to prevent changing the cell range set in a formula after such cut and paste operation?Solved66Views0likes4CommentsUpdate Excel formulas between a path in local folder and owncloud in another computer
I have a lot of Excel archives with lots of formulas which reference other Excel files, all in the path H:\Fold\Data\physics on a computer, and at the same time, on another computer, I have an owncloud folder C:\Users\fulanito\ownCloud\Shared\Data\physics. How could I change the paths in formulas to be able to update the data when I open them in the owncloud folder or in the original folder? They share part of the same route: \Data\physics The local folder on one computer (H:\Fold\Data\physics) is synchronized with owncloud, I share the folder Data. Mounted folder in owncloud in another computer: C:\Users\fulanito\ownCloud\Shared\Data\physics I tried to use relative paths but that works only if all archives are in the same folder. In my case for the owncloud path, for example one archive, data_2025.xlsx is in C:\Users\fulanito\ownCloud\Shared\Data\physics\2025 another, data_2024.xlsx, is in C:\Users\fulanito\ownCloud\Shared\Data\physics\2024 the Excel that use formulas with references to these two archives is in C:\Users\fulanito\ownCloud\Shared\Data\physics\summary. So if I want to update the summary archive daily_summary on the computer with owncloud, all the archives have to be in the same subfolder \summary\ Examples of formulas I use in the summary sheet to reference my files in H, in Excel daily_summary.xlsx are ='H:\Fold\Data\physics\2025\[data_2025.xlsx]Horario'!AV1419 and in another cell next to this is: ='H:\Fold\Data\physics\2025\[data_2024.xlsx]Horario'!AV1419 So if a make a change in data_2025 in that cell and I open on the computer with owncloud, it can't update because it references the local computer H:. I prefer not to use macros.Solved72Views0likes3CommentsExcel formula help - vertical and horizontal in same calculation
Hello, I have a set of data that contains resource names and their FTE effort per month. I'm trying to calculate their start month and end month in two cells but can't get my head around the correct formula. Here is an an example data set: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P 1 ID Employee Start Month End Month M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 M12 2 1 John ?? ?? 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.5 0.5 0 0 0 3 2 Brian ?? ?? 1 1 1 1 0.5 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 Alison ?? ?? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0.5 1 1 1 1 The result I'm looking for is for John - Start M4, End M9; Brian - start M1, End M6; Alison - start M7, End M12 .. i.e. its linked to non-zero cells I have a formula using match/index that I found on the web that is getting the start date (example of John's row): =INDEX('!E$1:P$1, MATCH(TRUE, '!E2:P2<>0,0)) I can't however amend that formula to work for the end date. I'm more familiar with XLOOKUP than MATCH/INDEX and I'm assuming there is some embedded XLOOKUP (=XLOOKUP("1", A:A, XLOOKUP("<>0", <<second row>>, <<first row>>) - cant get this to work , that could work here, but its outside the limits of my abilities. Suggestions please?Solved96Views0likes4CommentsFormula help on IF function
Hi all, I have a very simple if formula, that says if cell v35 contains the word critical, give an answer of 4. =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(“Critical”, V35)), “4”, “1”) How would I extend this to say if it’s critical say 4, high 3, moderate 2, low 1? thanksSolved64Views0likes1CommentDelete cells with 3 consecutive consonants
I submitted a question a little while back asking how to delete cells with exactly 3 consonants. The response I had was a huge help, but now I'm faced with a similar problem: How do I sort words by consecutive consonants? And if that cannot be achieved, how can I instead delete cells from a sheet in which a word has 3 consecutive consonants?Solved84Views0likes2CommentsLinks from Word to pdf doc online not working
I I am suddenly unable to jump from a hyperlink in Word to a PDF on the internet. I insert a hyperlink in Word that points to the online PDF. When I click on the link I get a message stating "This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install app or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Apps Settings page." I have checked my Default App settings, and Adobe acrobat reader is associated with file type "pdf," as well as "URL: adobe acrobat." I also went into "Manage Extensions" in Chrome and made sure to select "Allow access to file URLs" within the Adobe Acrobat extension to Chrome. I can paste the url into a search bar in my browser and that works fine, but not as a hyperlink from within the Word document. This has happened suddenly on my desktop and my laptop. Any idea what the problem is?Solved65Views0likes3CommentsLost ability to create macros
Just tried to create a macro and have found that all the buttons on the macro console are greyed out. I've been editing macros in this file earlier but now all have disappeared and I can't do anything with the macro console. All set up in the trust centre ok. Any ideas?Solved118Views0likes3CommentsPivot Table/Slicers Skipping Month
Hello, I have a Pivot Table where I use data slicers. A couple of the data fields are "Year" and "Month". When I updated the PT with data for October it treats the new data like it is November instead. I reviewed the following: I verified in the data that there was no incorrect month put in. So there is nowhere in the data where the "Year" = 2025, and the "Month" = "11". The data that was added to the table has the correct "Year" of 2025, and the correct "Month" of 10. I verified that the pivot table was set to view all months, which it is (there is data going back to Jan of 2024.). An additional filter is "Did we answer your question/concern?". This is set to No, and there were three "No's" in October. If I remove the data for October, then the PT removes the info showing for November. Including screenshots of the info. Does anyone have any idea why it is doing this?Solved129Views0likes2CommentsA button to transpose data into a destination table
Hi, I have a table filled with data that I need to be pasted into a final blank table but the destination table is larger than the original table. Also the data needs to be sorted by one column and the column order doesn't match. See image. This is a process that needs to be carried out by people with limited experience of excel or even computers, hence thinking that a button linked to a macro might be a solution, but open to any solutions! ThanksSolved171Views1like7CommentsAdd a page title to a OneNote page using Power Automate
Hello, I have set up a flow in Power Automate to create a new page in OneNote. It extracts information from an email, including the information that I want to be the title of the new page in OneNote. The flow creates the new page in the correct notebook and section, but the page is untitled. My flow correctly composes the title in a Compose action named PageTitle. The parameters for the action "Create page in a section" only include the following Notebook Key Notebook section Page Content AI suggested that I add the page title to Page Content inside either an html h1 tag. I tried that. It does not turn the text inside the tag into the title of the page. It simply formats the text inside the contents of the OneNote page. I also tried using the html title tag. That didn't work either, and the PageTitle wasn't even output into the contents of the OneNote page, so it was just empty. I would appreciate suggestions for how to do this. I cannot see either a OneNote tag or Power Automate tag for this discussion. If I am posting my question in the wrong discussion place, please direct me to the right place. Thanks.Solved142Views0likes3CommentsHow to retrieve the latest unit cost
Hello, I am sharing a condensed version of a pricing file that lists from Cols A to C Item Codes and pricing by date. The goal is to retrieve the latest unit cost for a particular Item Code. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wm9Ry7PGqM0qirY6GeKu1F9ZHzR3kFrj/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103354753371375324640&rtpof=true&sd=true Note: the formula in Cells F5:G48 may return N/A because of the link that automatically opens up as Google Sheets. In Cells F5:G48, I have attempted to retrieve the latest Unit Cost by first bringing in Unique Item Code from the repetitive Item Code in Column B. Unfortunately, the unit cost coming in for most of the items is incorrect. For example, Item Code: ABR00054 should have a latest unit cost from 12/6/2023 of $42.98. However, the xlookup(maxifs) function that I am using is bringing in $4.53. I thought that the formula shown in Cells G5:G48 would work but something is scrambling the formula logic. Can you please point out if the formula is incompatible with the source data layout as presented in Cols A to C? Please consider highlighting another formula that will be able to provide me with the data that I am looking for. Thank you. Regards, Shams.Solved123Views0likes6CommentsMerging two Columns Vertically, not Horizontally
I wish to merge two columns. However, all suggestions I have found so far use horizontal merging, often using the Concatenate command, so cell A1 contains John, and cell B1 contains Jones, producing in cell C1 John Jones, that's what I mean by horizontal merging. In my Case the A column contains dates, and the B column contains what happened on that date. eg. A1 May 1963 B1 The Beatles had their first no. 1 single The output I want in the C column is, something like this May 1963 The Beatles had their first no. 1 single So the date in Column A goes above the data in Column B which is what I mean by vertical merging. Can it be done?Solved88Views0likes2CommentsSpellcheck problem
Since a few days, my Word Online refuses to give suggestions for spellchecking. I already contacted support, but they cant help me. I will add a screenshot for clarity. Can anyone please help me out? I've tried all standard things already and it always used to work.Solved260Views1like18CommentsSpell Number in Bangladeshi/Indian Style By Excel Formula.
On web there is SpellNumber() VBA custom function which spell numbers to word in million, billion. We Bangladesh, India, Pakistan spell amounts like lakh, crore etc. Here is a formula to convert amounts to word in Bangladeshi/Indian style. In attached file there is also a generalize LAMBDA() named function SpellNumberBD(). =LET(x,A2,lr,TEXT(INT(x),"00000000000000"),cr,LEFT(lr,7),lc,RIGHT(lr,7),dec,ROUND(x-INT(x),2)*100,c,CHOOSECOLS, digits,{"One","Two","Three","Four","Five","Six","Seven","Eight","Nine","Ten","Eleven","Twelve","Thirteen","Fourteen","Fifteen","Sixteen","Seventeen","Eighteen","Nineteen"}, Tenths,{"Ten","Twenty","Thirty","Fourty","Fifty","Sixty","Seventy","Eighty","Ninety","Hundred"}, SPELL,LAMBDA(val,abr,IFERROR(IF(val<20,c(digits,val),c(Tenths,LEFT(val,1)) & IFERROR(" " & c(digits,RIGHT(val,1)),"")) & SWITCH(abr,6," Lakh ",5," Thousand ",3," Hundred ",1," Poisa Only.",""),"")), Taka,SPELL(--MID(cr,1,2),6) & SPELL(--MID(cr,3,2),5) & SPELL(--MID(cr,5,1),3) & SPELL(--MID(cr,6,2),"") & IF(--cr>0," Crore ","") & SPELL(--MID(lc,1,2),6) & SPELL(--MID(lc,3,2),5) & SPELL(--MID(lc,5,1),3) & SPELL(--MID(lc,6,2),""), Poisa,IF(dec<=0," Taka Only."," Taka And " & SPELL(dec,1)),TRIM(Taka & Poisa)) Alternate Download Link (Google Drive).Solved114Views2likes1CommentAgent in SharePoint option is not visible in the M365 admin center
Agent in SharePoint option is not visible in my M365 admin center under pay as you go service and it's only show Syntex services option not the Agent in SharePoint. As before we were able to see both options like Agent in SharePoint and Syntex services but now Agent in SharePoint is not visible. I have also attached the screenshot where both of the options were visible but now the Agents in SharePoint option is not visible, so is there new update in admin portal or is this is some kind of issue?Solved134Views0likes3CommentsHow to filter visible cells by formula after applying filter to a dataset.
I have a dataset from A1:B11 (in real case many more). I apply a filter on dataset, for example filter data for Retailer1 and Retailer3. I want on a separate sheet to filter these visible cells using formula (not VBA). Preferably using a generic LAMBDA function like =FILTERVISIBLE(A2:B11). Any thought or idea to achieve it?Solved119Views0likes6Comments
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