Microsoft Excel - turn off circular reference warning? I have an Excel spreadsheet that I use quite frequently, and every time I open it (as well as often times when I make a new selection from my pivot table), I get a circular reference warning. Sep 21, 2013  As it suggests you have a situation with a chain of cells that somewhere reference themselves. Typically if you have formulae of the order A1: =A2+A3 A2: =A3+A1 Then you have a circular reference since A1 is dependent on A2 and A2 is dependent on A1. A formula in a cell that directly or indirectly refers to its own cell is called a circular reference. This is not possible. For example, the formula in cell A3 below directly refers to its own cell. This is not possible. Note: Excel returns a 0 if you accept this circular reference. The Navigate Circular Ref. Control dropdown remains blank. I have now found that the spreadsheet recalculates if I click the Calc Sheet button in Preferences, although the keyboard shortcut, Cmnd-Shift-= has no effect (same with Cmnd-= ).

This is what my example looks like, with the formulas in place: The VBA code (see below) takes the Value from the named range IterXXX and copies it onto the cell to the immediate right of the named range. The code detects a calculation of Excel and automatically repeats that calculation after copying the IterXXX results to their right. It does so the number of times set up in Iterations. I have also set up a conditional format on range A8:E8: The VBA code does not check whether the condition(s) is (are) met, this is handled by the conditional formatting.

When I try to point it at a range, it doesn’t work. Thanks in advance for your help.

The tutorial explains the basics of Excel calculation settings and how to configure them to have formulas recalculated automatically and manually. To be able to use Excel formulas efficiently, you need to understand how Microsoft Excel does calculations. There are many details you should know about,, the, and so on. Less known, but no less important are 'background' settings that can speed up, slow down, or even stop your Excel calculations. Overall, there are three basic Excel calculations settings you should be familiar with: Calculation mode - whether Excel formulas are recalculated manually or automatically.

Duncan Bob Greenblatt 4/2/2008, 10:18 น. Well, sure, I've never seen that warning when it wasn't true either, but I've also never used a version of Office so fresh off the presses, on such a new version of an OS (Leopard in this case). Sadly I can't mail you a workbook, as it's proprietary data (aren't they all?) and so far I haven't been able to pare it down to a simpler example that exhibits the behavior. Remember that what I am changing when the error message crops up is numeric data, not formulas. It is data in a table that other cells do a series of IF-VLOOKUP statements on. And this has all worked perfectly for forever in Excel 2004 on the Mac and various Excel versions under Windows.

After saving the file, if you open the file again you should no longer get the circular reference warning message. If you are troubleshooting your calculation, set Maximum Iterations to 1.

It is quite easy to update the VBA code to check whether all conditions are met at the end of an iteration and if not, display a warning message. Download Here is a for you to download. The VBA code First I'll just list all code. Below you will find an explanation.

• On the Excel menu, click Preferences. Amazon parallels desktop for mac 12. • Under Formulas and Lists, click Calculation, and then under Iteration, select the Limit iteration check box.

Edited by JoBoy ( 01/06/11 04:28 PM). I'm no spreadsheet expert, and i haven't done anything that heavy in Numbers yet (though i did design a variable-interest mortgage analyzer from scratch once in ClarisWorks, sans template). But isn't it customary to add a hidden column and use the cells there as a sort of scratchpad for intermediate values and/or ancillary control structures?

For this I took an example from. A company donates a percentage of its profit after taxes to charity. But since donations to charity are tax-deductible, the donation depends on the tax, which in turn (partly) depends on the donation. A circular reference! Worksheet setup The figure below shows a spreadsheet with the formulas in place: The basic principle of the VBA code is that it looks for named ranges in the file which match names like Iter000, Iter001, Iter002. The number is unlimited. To set the model up for the VBA handled iteration these steps are needed.

Let’s take a look at an example. Let’s look at a direct example. If I type =A4+1 in cell A4 I am directly referring to the cell I am writing the formula in. This results in a warning from Excel in case you did not create this circular reference intentionally (as we did) and the result of the formula is zero. Let’s look at an indirect example If I type 2 into cell A1, then type =A1 into cell A2 then A2 refers back to A1 and gives a result of 2 which is a normal formula. If I then go back to cell A1 and enter the formula =A2+3, this will create a circular formula as A2 is based on A1 and I am writing the formula in A1 so essentially the formula is referring to itself.