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RCKVM
Sep 08, 2019Copper Contributor
PIVOT TABLE AND (MORE GENERALLY) MICROSOFT OFFICE PROBLEM
PIVOT TABLE (AND OFFICE) PROBLEM
Today suddenly all my Excel financial files switched to pivot tables, and when I open Word to write this memo the top is different than before: top line is AutoSav...
JKPieterse
Sep 09, 2019Silver Contributor
Excel has something new which is called Data types. Currently only two types exist: Geography or Stocks data type. With the Geography and Stock data type you really pull in a lot of data into a single cell. To get individual fields from such a cell you type =E2.Population to get the number of people in a country (for instance).
The syntax e2.e32 actually means that you want to get a field named "e32" from a data type in cell E2. Because there is no such field in cell E2 (and because cell E2 does not have a data type assigned to it), you get a #FIELD error. Fix this by using =SUM(E2:E32)
ALso you wrote that "Today suddenly all my Excel financial files switched to pivot table". Can you perhaps show us a screen-shot of what you mean?