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Excel returning "#VALUE!" when I press enter after viewing the function.
I am trying to make a bill of materials that include price, quantity, and shipping cost. A teammate created a formula to add up the total cost and I am duplicating it for my part of the budget, but it is just returning "#VALUE". Also, when I click on the formula he wrote to view it then press enter it returns "#VALUE" even though it was had the correct number before I clicked on it and pressed enter.
Bellow are screenshots of my process: the correct total is displayed, I double click on the number to view the formula, I press enter and it returns "#VALUE"
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- Detlef_LewinSilver Contributor
This is an array formula. If you are not on Office 365 you have to put in the formula with CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER instead of only ENTER.
Excel adds this pair of bracket in the formula bar: {}.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to confirm the formula, instead of just Enter. This changes the formula to a so-called array formula.