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HELP! stuck excel cell formula I cant get rid of
Hi - I'm no excel guru - was doing a cut/paste of a few hundred rows of data, and somehow hit a wrong key(s), and now can't get rid of this weird formula I inadvertently created, which has my spreadsheet locked up. Hitting delete or backspace does nothing.
The formula at the top of my excel spreadsheet displays this:
=421:G6562.45
421 is the very top row in the section I was highlighting,
and G656 was the very first cell I started to highlight.
52.45 is the value in that cell
Any help someone can provide so that I can get back to my project is SINCERELY appreciated.
THANK YOU in advance!
Tom
I clicked on formulas and over towards the right there is a "Show formulas" option. Click that and it goes back to normal. For me anyway it did.
tmlmyusername this happened to me as well! I went under the Formulas tab, clicked on "Recently Used" and chose Sum. It then let me put in numbers to add. Once I hit OK, it changed the stuck formula to a sum formula and I was then able to delete it and unfreeze my spreadsheet. Hope this works for you, too!
- I love you so so so so so much! ❤️ thank you!
- The same exact thing happened to me. Did anyone figure out how to fix this?
Could you attach a copy of the workbook, without sensitive data?
Hi Hans Vogelaar, thank you for reaching out. There is no sensitive data in the spreadsheet, so I hope these screenshots will suffice. First image is from the spreadsheet I was working on when things locked up. Second image shows the different circular reference in the formula bar of the 2nd spreadsheet
- Apologize if the image quality is fuzzy. To your request of sending a copy of the file - I am unable to do anything with either file. Almost all functions are disabled, including copy/paste. I can't even open another new excel spreadsheet. When I try to do any of these things I get "There is a problem with this formula" error message. I've tried putting an apostrophe in front of the formula as suggested to try & fix the formula, but that's as far as I can get. And I wasn't trying to create a formula at all. Just ended up with me mistakenly hitting 1 or more keys on the keyboard when I was trying to cut/paste
