Forum Discussion
#VALUE!
I can share in your blessing, but in my case three years ahead of you and still a few months away==I'll turn 80 in October. I also share some of your experience as well--it wasn't my main career, but I did become something of a power user with Excel and its predecessors in the spreadsheet world (Lotus, Quattro), as well as learning SQL to write extensive queries from a mainframe database--and therefore can fully appreciate how frustrating it can be when, with all that experience, you can't put your finger on what's causing the #VALUE.
Unfortunately, an image isn't something that any of us can actually do much diagnostic work with.
Looking at the formula in the formula bar in the image, and the cell from which it appears to come (I748), I can tell:
- the formula IS working in I748
- and it's not in any of the subsequent rows--well, more precisely, it's working to deliver #VALUE
Which suggest something I'm sure you're well aware of, that the issue is most likely in whatever is in cells G749 and H749...and once introduced it doesn't self-correct since it's always in I749, I750, I751,... and on. Has the formula been changed in any way in any of the rows? I will offer the observation that the formula that's visible in this image is NOT the formula you included in your original post.
What happens if you place fresh numeric values in some of the cells in columns G, H and I down below where the #VALUE first appears? Down in the 760s?
And since you made this image from a modified copy of the spreadsheet itself, is it now possible to post that actual--but modified and therefore not revealing sensitive personal data--spreadsheet?
What has Excel done?
Probably nothing. It's generally premature to place the blame on Excel, especially when it comes to something as simple as adding two cells, even if you think that nothing has changed at your end.
My guess--especially since you mention Zillow in the process of your message-- is that something HAS changed at your end of things in those cells that are to be added. Especially if you are importing a CSV file from a source outside. There may be special characters embedded.....
Is it possible to post a copy of your spreadsheet in which this is happening? Not an image; the actual spreadsheet.
Absent that, describe a bit more fully the whole process prior to this error: in particular, where the data in cells H5 and I4 is coming from,
