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To troubleshoot whether formulas are causing performance issues in your Excel file stored on SharePoint, you can use several techniques:

1. Formula Auditing Tools: Excel provides built-in tools for auditing formulas. You can use features like "Trace Precedents" and "Trace Dependents" to visualize the relationships between cells and identify potential circular references or excessively complex formulas.
2. Formula Evaluation: Excel has a feature called "Evaluate Formula" that allows you to step through the calculation process of a formula. This can help you identify specific parts of the formula that may be causing performance issues or errors.
3. Formula Optimization: Review the formulas in your workbook to identify any that are particularly complex or resource-intensive. Consider simplifying or restructuring these formulas to improve performance. For example, replacing volatile functions with non-volatile alternatives or using array formulas more efficiently.
4. Error Handling: Ensure that your formulas include appropriate error handling to prevent unexpected behavior or crashes. Use functions like IFERROR or IF(ISERROR) to handle potential errors gracefully.
5. Calculation Settings: Check the calculation settings in Excel to ensure that they are optimized for your workbook. You can adjust settings such as automatic vs. manual calculation and iterative calculation to improve performance.
6. Performance Profiling: Use performance profiling tools or add-ins for Excel to analyze the execution time of different parts of your workbook, including formulas. This can help you identify bottlenecks and areas for optimization.
7. Testing with Simplified Data: Create a copy of your workbook with simplified or reduced data to isolate the performance issue. Gradually reintroduce elements from the original workbook while monitoring performance to pinpoint the cause of the problem.
8. You can use the "Inquire" add-in in Excel to analyze and troubleshoot issues related to formulas, cell relationships, and workbook structure. The Inquire add-in in Excel is primarily designed to analyze workbooks stored locally on your computer. It may not directly support analyzing Excel files stored in SharePoint or other online platforms. However, you can still use Inquire to analyze a local copy of the Excel file that has been synchronized with SharePoint. You would need to download a local copy of the Excel file from SharePoint, open it in Excel on your computer, and then use the Inquire add-in to perform the analysis. Once you have the local copy of the Excel file open in Excel, you can follow the steps mentioned earlier to run the workbook analysis using the Inquire add-in. This will allow you to identify potential formula-related issues or other workbook structure issues that may be impacting performance.

By using these techniques, you can identify and address any formula-related performance issues in your Excel file stored on SharePoint.

If these steps don't help you, consider adding more information. Information such as the exact Excel version, operating system, storage medium, file extension, and if possible the file itself (without sensitive data). The text was created with the help of AI.

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