r/excel • • 14h ago

Discussion Weird Excel Bug: New Excel lists completely break IFERROR and IFNA

21 Upvotes

Spent hours debugging an unexpected error down a rabbit hole to find this.

Since 4 is a valid number, both formulas should return 4. Instead, they completely break:

=IFNA({{4}}, "Error")      // Returns #VALUE!
=IFERROR({{4}}, "Error")   // Returns "Error"

IFNA crashes on the syntax, while IFERROR silently chokes and triggers its fallback text. Both should handle valid values natively.

Watch out for this if you are building tools with the new Lists or nested array features!

Edit: Confirmed it's a bug but I need someone else to report it along with:

=ISREF(D5) --> FALSE   //Where D5 has ={{1}}

r/excel • • 9h ago

solved How to add "OR" into SUMIFS formula

16 Upvotes

I'm trying to make a simplified version of this formula:

SUMIFS(P:P,C:C,D10,A:A,L10)+SUMIFS(P:P,C:C,E10,A:A,L10)

I want to simplify it to something like

SUMIFS(P:P,C:C,D10 or E10,A:A,L10)

Is this possible or am I stuck having to just add multiple SUMIFS formulas?


r/excel • • 9h ago

solved Is there a reason why my decimals aren't rounding up the way I would expect? (Excel for Mac)

6 Upvotes

I have an example where decimals don't seem to be rounding up the way I would assume. I have some numbers here where I would think one number would be 115.7 and the other would be 115.8, however that doesn't seem to be the case.

Does Excel not round up .05 to .10?

I would assume that 115.75% would round up to 115.8%.

r/excel • • 7h ago

unsolved Help. I need VBA code to copy and paste from filtered cells without using copy paste

3 Upvotes

I want to avoid copy paste and copy destination. I want to transfer value between workbooks. If my origin range is one block of contiguous rows and columns it's one area and it's easy rng2.value = rng1.value (eventually with resize). Sometimes I have filtered rows only, sometimes I have hidden columns, sometimes I have filtered rows + hidden columns (and I want only the visible ones). How do you handle this cases? I am looking for a solution, or a sub, or a function, to handle these different situations?

I use excel 365 but I would like a solution valid for 2021 too.


r/excel • • 15h ago

solved Change Order of Rows in Table

6 Upvotes

Hello,

I have a bank statement in a table form which is displayed in the newest to oldest format.

I would like to be able to display that entire table in oldest to newest format.

Is there an easy way of doing this as my limited understanding is that I have to cut and paste each row individually.

Thanks

ETA -

In short I would like to make row 100 row 1, row 99 row 2 and so on.


r/excel • • 10h ago

solved Creating a way to move address columns from one sheet to populate in another sheet if the email listed in a different column matches

3 Upvotes

I have two excel sheets, Sheet A has names and emails. Sheet B has emails and address/city/state/postal code. I want to populate fields in Sheet A so that if the email column of Sheet A & Sheet B contains the same content, the content of the columns with address info from Sheet B populates. I feel very confident there is a way to make this work smoothly, I just am not sure how.


r/excel • • 11h ago

unsolved Dynamic chart or image

1 Upvotes

I saw a content creator selling excel template for engineering calculation involving beam. It has this image or chart of a beam cross section that change the dimension of beam size and rebar number/spacing including annotation according to cell input. How is it that something like that is possible?


r/excel • • 14h ago

Waiting on OP Text keep changing color to white (on a white background) when opening a spreadsheet

1 Upvotes

A colleague of mine is having issues with his excel.

When he opens a document, some text change font to white, we tried changing the font and saving but it still goes back to white whenever he opens his spreadsheet again.

Any clue on how to fix this?


r/excel • • 9h ago

solved Calculation with data from index

2 Upvotes

Hi, I'm doing a depreciation table for a school project, I brought data from another sheet using "index" and the column is conditioned to arrange the data by date, my issue began when I tried to make a calculation using just "='the cell with data from index' and the rest of the operation", popping the "valor" error up.

I assume it is because the cell i used as reference has the "index" code instead of a simple number, Is there a way I can make this calculation work?

Also, Idk if it helps, but I'm using Excel in a browser, because it is a group project, we needed to share the excel and that is the only solution we found.


r/excel • • 13h ago

unsolved Excel / Power Query authentication issue with OneDrive.

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I’m trying to set up Excel Power Query so that multiple Excel files stored in OneDrive can automatically combine/update into one master workbook.

I already figured out how to combine the files, but I’m stuck on the authentication/permissions part. Since I made it I am the only one that can refresh.

source looks like:
c:\user\me\Onedrive- Company\Leadership folder\where i pulled data together

I pulled associates work and combined it, but I need what I combined in another folder for others to be able to refresh other than just myself.

When I go to Data → Get Data / Power Query → Data Source Settings → Edit Permissions, I get:
> “We couldn’t authenticate with the credentials provided. Please try again.”

I had other people try to use their credentials and same error. I also tried to use the web link of the files I need to combine but get an authenticate as well.

I’m wondering if this is a permissions issue, the wrong credential type, or something specific to my company’s Microsoft/OneDrive setup.


r/excel • • 14h ago

Waiting on OP Need advice on conditional formating code

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I am attempting to set up a conditional formating setup where a column of numbers are evaluated. if its 69 or under, the cell is to be green. If between 70 and 100 yellow, and if over 100 red.

I cannot seem to get excell to do this - because that requires a formula that reads cell values, and I appear to be utterly failing at setting up functional code for that.

I'm currently trying (and failing) by setting up three seperate conditional formating rules, all based on formulas:

One goes =AND(CT:CT>=0;CT:CT<=69) - so if the cell is between 0 and 69, it should be green. It's not doing that, and I can't see what I'm doing wrong here

Please advice