Here’s how: Click Open in Excel and use error checking to detect errors in formulas. For news about the latest Excel Online updates, visit the Microsoft Excel blog. For the full suite of Office applications and …

Formulas can sometimes result in error values in addition to returning unintended results. The following are some tools that you can use to find and investigate the causes of these errors and determine …

Here’s how: Click Open in Excel and use error checking to detect errors in formulas. For news about the latest Excel Online updates, visit the Microsoft Excel blog. For the full suite of Office applications and …

Select the cell that contains the error indicator and look at the Formula Bar to verify that cell references are correct. The shortcut menu shows the options available to resolve this warning.

You can use the IFERROR function to handle errors in a formula. IFERROR returns a value you specify if a formula evaluates to an error; otherwise, it returns the result of the formula.

Excel shows this error when a formula or function contains numeric values that aren’t valid. This often happens when you’ve entered a numeric value using a data type or a number format that’s not …

With the Evaluate Formula dialog box, you can see how a nested formula calculates its result by inspecting its intermediate calculations and logical tests.

If you can't find the error, select the Formulas tab, select the arrow next to Error Checking, point to Circular References, and then select the first cell listed in the submenu.

The #REF! error shows when a formula refers to a cell that's not valid. This happens most often when cells that were referenced by formulas get deleted, or pasted over.

If Excel can't resolve a formula you're trying to create, you may get an error message like this one: Unfortunately, this means that Excel can't understand what you're trying to do, so you'll need to …