On Wed, 7 May 2008 15:46:27 -0400
Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In an excel spreadsheet I am encountering a strange error where I have
> a correct formula in a cell, in this case L190 contains:
> =difdate($F$4;$K190;"y")+1 and yields Err:522, yet all other cells
> between L11 and L201 display the correct result of the formula. Err:522
> has to do with circular references, but that does not make sense
> because there is nothing iterative here, and that does not explain why
> cell L191 does not report an error. 
> 
> Note that the difdate() macro is analogous to the Excel datedif(). 
> The formulai in L189 and L191 are:
> L189: =difdate($F$4;$K189;"y")+1  yields 15
> L191: =difdate($F$4;$K191;"y")+1  yields 16
> 
> F4 contains 7/4/2007 and K189, K190, and K191 contain 5/4/2022,
> 6/4/2022, 7/4/2022. 
> 
> I can fix the error by selecting L189 and dragging it down to L190, or
> selecting K191 and dragging up, or, by selecting the formula
> (=difdate($F$4;$K190;"y")+1), cutting it, then pasting it back. It is
> very simply to fix. I'll try to reduce the size of the spreadsheet
> (contains 17 sheets) and issue a bugzilla later on. 
> 

As I was trying to reduce the spreadsheet to send it, I first saved it
as an OpenDocument file (.ods), and the error changed from cell L190 to
Q11, that has a similar, but more complex formula with vlookup().



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