Your Formulas arent Calculating Because they are Formatted as Text.

Why my formula in excel is not working. If you find a Single Formula or Formulas in a few Cells not working the problem is not due to Show Formulas option being enabled. THANK YOU SO MUCH for this tip. Head over to Formulas Under formula Auditing Click on Show Formulas With the first click formulas will show up and Second click they will hide behind cells and start working Please refer to above screenshot.

Once I changed it to the NUMBER it still wouldnt work until I went to the formula bar and reentered the formula. Excel thinks your formula is text. I have a very useful program called Snagit which can copy an image of cells directly from the screen.

July 13 2015 at 1149 am Adding to the long list of thanks I was just about to blow a gasket as my formulas seemed to. As with our test formula we use the first cell in the range B3. First you may have forgotten the equal sign.

This will bring up a menu with three choices. This was driving me NUTS as to why the formulas were not working. In this case the problem is due to Excel treating formula in a certain Cell or group of cells as Text.

If you select Formulas from the menus at the top of the screen then go to the group called Formula Auditing and select Show Formulas. The most likely cause of this issue is the Calculation Option mode and its a critical setting that every Excel user should know about. The value returned by Excels formula doesnt update automatically the cell with the formula continues to show the old value even after changing the values of the dependent cells.

The syntax should be. Excel formulas are not updating. When Excel thinks that a Formula is Text it simply displays the Formula that you type in the Cells and does not try to evaluate the.