{"id":2295,"date":"2012-03-20T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2014-01-24T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:18:41","slug":"excel-stopped-calculating-formulas-earth-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/excel-stopped-calculating-formulas-earth-coming-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel stopped calculating formulas &#8211; Earth coming to an end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bricklinfrankston.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"bricklin and frankston - spreadsheet hipsters\" width=\"200\" height=\"203\" align=\"right\" \/>From early 60s to modern times, spreadsheet processors play important role in every man&#8217;s day life which basic functionality is taken for granted. <\/p>\n<p>In the accounting a &#8220;spread sheet&#8221; was and is a large sheet of paper with columns and rows that lays everything out about transactions for a business person to examine. An electronic spreadsheet organizes information into columns and rows. The data can then be &#8220;added up&#8221; by a formula to give a total or sum. The spreadsheet program summarizes information from many sources in one place and presents the information.<br \/>\nIf you are wondering who are those two cool spreadsheet hipsters, check out A Brief History of Spreadsheets (<a href=\"http:\/\/dssresources.com\/history\/sshistory.html\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.umd.edu\/class\/spring2002\/cmsc434-0101\/MUIseum\/applications\/spreadsheethistory1.html\">here<\/a>). Now, let&#8217;s go back to 2012. Erm 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Did your Excel (2007) stopped auto calculating your precious formulas out of the sudden and you are in a hurry to send cost estimates to your client? Just like mine did? Yes, that can be nasty. :)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Formulas <\/strong>ribbon tab, <\/li>\n<li>then select <strong>Calculation Options<\/strong>, <\/li>\n<li>and then check if <strong>Automatic <\/strong>is on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Simple eh? How did this switch off in first place? No idea. This applies to Excel 2007, dunno about 2012:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/excel-formule.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/excel-formule-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"excel-formule\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From early 60s to modern times, spreadsheet processors play important role in every man&#8217;s day life which basic functionality is taken for granted. In the accounting a &#8220;spread sheet&#8221; was and is a large sheet of paper with columns and rows that lays everything out about transactions for a business person to examine. An electronic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nivas.hr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}