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Activate the Formulas tab of the ribbon. Make sure that Automatic is selected in the Calculation Options dropdown in the Calculation group. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
It is set to automatic. I switched it to Manual, then back to automatic, still no dice. In reply to JFerrone's post on November 21, Does the problem persist after closing and restarting Excel? After restarting Windows? Check circular reference as this can be another culprit that causes Excel formulas not updating. The circular reference is a formula that includes itself in its calculation or refers to another cell that depends on itself.
And in some cases, this prevents Excel from calculating the formula. So check it and correct the circular reference and recalculate your spreadsheet. This is the last solution that causes the Excel formulas not updating. This mistake is quite tricky and difficult to notice and left unidentified.
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Click on the Cell containing the Formula and see if the Formula is enclosed in Quotes. Note: You are allowed to use quotes inside the formulas, but not to enclose the Formula in quotes. As you can see in the image below, Formula starting with a space before the equal sign is being treated as text by Excel. If everything about the Formula appears right and yet the Formula is not working, it is likely that the Cell containing the formula is in Text Format.
Right-click on the Cell containing the Formula and click on Format Cells… option in the drop-down menu. On the Format Cells screen, set the format to General or a particular Number Format in which you want to display the result produced by the formula and click OK.
After changing the Format, click into the Formula bar and hit the Enter key on the keyboard of your computer.
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