Thanks Leila, yet another very timely video. I started seeing Spill errors this past week while working on a new Excel project, and as if you knew, your video arrived right in time to answer my questions.
A Leila Instructional Video ... and a mug of hot black coffee ... the day is off to a good start. Perfect topic ... because I wrestle with this problem ALL the time. At approximately the 1:20 mark you commented " ... but it's not good practice to reference entire columns ... ". But what is the alternative if I need my column to 'refresh' with new data?, i.e. "Refresh All, whether daily, weekly or monthly?. On earlier occasions you've suggested dragging down the fill area ... but that is too limiting and at some point the new data will not be reflected. I have too many tables to be manually extending the fill range every few days and/or weeks. Love your work ... appreciate any suggestions ... thank you ...
Thank you! It was a short video this time. Best practice is to use an Excel Table. This way you don't have to worry about any of your formulas, charts, pivot tables etc because they will automatically be updated as the range expands.
@@LeilaGharani Yes, I agree ... but I thought a connected dynamic graph does not automatically update when the table expands unless the data range was previously expanded manually. No? Yes, short video ... but clearly you have been busy ... ;)
Hi @Leila Gharani, is there a why to keep Excel from trying to Spill, if I don't want or intend it to Spill into adjacent cells. I think this is another Case of Microsoft "trying" to be helpful and innovative but it's just causing unintended issues.
Why is it that whenever I use formula editing a zero appears next to the cell, if I try to type something else in that cell I get the spill error? How do I fix this
I used the =SEQUENCE(COUNTA(C:C)-1) and it work fine and I did not start on the top row or the first colum. After having about 10 entries per row it still works fine. then I selected the data and made it into a table and the dynamic numbering all of the cells turn into the error #spill!. I deleted all of the entries in colum C except for the first one then I get a 1 for all of the cells that were giving me befor a #spill! error. then I entered data for one cell after the first cell and I get a #spill! error again for all of the 10 rors again even though their is no data enter into those other cells. I would really appreciate a response from some one on this. thanks by the way your videos have helped me expound my knowledge of excell drastically. thank you for the time you dedicate to your channel.
Hi Leila, great video thank you. I'm struggling at work right now with this error, would be possible to fix it adding automatically as many rows as the result need? Thank you.
How To Create A Real-Time Sync Between Excel Online & Google Sheets? For instance, We as staff working on Excel online and whenever we add any new records or delete anything from the data, then I need the same reflection of the new records or delete of the data within the google sheet. In a nutshell, I want to transfer the real-time sync data into the google sheet. Many thanks for your amazing videos and I don't skip any of your videos. I wish you can help me in this regard as well. Thanks in advance.
Nice video explaining #spill. Especially liked the "not so obvious" reasons, otherwise hard to find and fix! Keep "spilling" more secrets about Office tools! We want them! 😊👍
Nice video Leila. By the way, Excel 365 Team can develop some function in line with IFERROR or ISERROR and make such function an inbuilt part any function or integrated function(s) dealing with spilled array. Or there should be a pop up error massage asking user's permission to spill the result of #spilled.
Hi @Leila Gharani, thank you for another excellent video. Is there a way to "trap" for #SPILL? If we had say IFSPILL function, then we could use ARRAYTOTEXT to convert the many rows returned into just one string and overcome the limitation of using dynamic arrays in tables. In my case, by the way, I am using Filter() to find a list of possible posting matches (Category, Product, Region etc.,) based on previous assignments and sometimes more than one options exists, in which case I get a #SPILL error where what I really want to do is trap for this and then just convert the dynamic array to show something like [ Dog/Pet/UK] [Cat/Pet/US] [Banana/Food/Global]...anyway, thank you again for the fantastic tips and insights.
On that last issue (invisible text), another way to find the next cell that has a value (or formula) is to press CTRL + Down Arrow. This can be quicker if that cell happens to be 100 rows down, for example.
hiii leila thanks for your tip on the cell format, my situation was a little different as the contents of a cell , in this case a name , filled 2 adjacent cells but truncated the name after the 1st cell, but checking the cell format was ""custom"" even though i had not set the format, but i changed to general and le voila fixed !! thanks for your tip 👋👋👋👋👋 - rick
Highlight the spill range or highlight the entire column if has no useful content and type Alt,E,,A A and press Enter. That removes everything and normally solves the spill error problem.
Thanks for the video. It looks like you cannot reference table columns, for example, =Table1[Start_Date] in a formula within a table. This is returning #Spill error. I've used absolute cell reference and the error disappeared.
Leila, Thank you for your very clear and informative videos. Help Please with Office 365. I have start and end times setup in columns D & E, my formula is meant to give me a result in column F showing the time spent. For some reason the data in F is spilling into G and displaying there as well as in F. My formula: =if(isblank(d3:e3),"",(e3-d3)*24) Phil
Hi Thanks for the explanation. it helps me to figure out - how to remove spill error in my excel sheet. i was using the roundup function to get SUM of some numbers in another tab. i found the problem with tab name, which has a space between its two-letters in my case - the tab name was "Thinking Space" changed to "ThinkingSpace" - All is well!!
Hi Leila, I have a question about #spill error. I’m taking error when I using index or unique or filter formulas in the table. Where do I fail? Can’t we use that formulas in the table?
thank you, very informative. do you have a video or can you make a tutorial on how to have calculated date in Microsoft Word. been looking for videos but cant find any. I believe you might have answer to this one. lets says todays date is Jan 14, but in the word document you want to use Jan 20 and then add an auto calculate date which add Jan 20 + 14days. hope you can help with this question.
I have multiple tables added to the data model. Is it possible to add a spillover list to that? whenever i convert a unique list to a table i face spill error
Good video, this spill is very confusing, or excel to automatically fills in cells. I am an experienced user I see no benefit not to say that it prevents me from complex formula building. Has is replaced !Ref? Thanks
Hi Leila, great videos on excel - my go to. I now get "Calculating (Spill Resize Pass 1): x%" errors, where excel mentions it is " Calculating ( x threads ) x% ". Sometimes, I see pass 2 or 3. How do I find these. Thanks Dave.
hello @Leila Gharani, how i Auto insert a blank row when spill error occur due to Blockage. I do not want to manually add couple of rows, instead of that i want rows Automatically add or remove depend on how much rows should be needed to spill the data.
Thanks for saving us. I've been trying vlookup function on a project but I receive errors(#N/A and #VALUE!). I've tried all I could to fix it but to no avail (ie. i tried NumberValue, Trim, multiplied the referenced value by 1 in the formula, converted text/labels to number and even compared the look up values to check for empty spaces). Kindly help out
Thank you for the best Excel videos ever... Is there a way to combine two filter results to one? If I want to filter two collums, and get the result in one collum
brilliant video however this video hasnt solved it, i was wondering if i could share my screen with you and kindly you could advise. i havent found anyone that could help me but have been using your videos and feel like you can sort this? if you can please let me know.
Hi Leila! Am trying to convert data pulled using FILTER function into an Excel Table but am getting SPILL error. How can I fix it? Basically am copying the contents of one sheet into the second sheet using Filter.
Thanks Leila. I've been running into this error multiple times these few days, as i always used columns for my vlookups... Is there a way to exclude the spill behavior from a formula so i don't have to manually specify the lookup area?
Why are you not able to use spill functions in a table? I've watched your Excel # video, which is very helpful; however, you would think spill functions would be beneficial in an official table. Thanks!
How do i average a set of data using 2 arguments, I.E. averaging only the cases ran on a specific line, but only between x times? ive been trying to figure this out for some time now and just cant get it, I'm on 365 version. And ty for all the help you have provided.
Thanks Leila for the great stuff! small question .... am trying sort the result from spill formula and getting a message "cant change part of array". How do I get over this?
hi I've written the following formula =SUM(I10:I16)-(H10:H16)+J9 to return its value in j16 which it does , however it also returns the value in j17 though j20 I assume this is the spill? however I don't want this. how can I stop it or am iI using the wrong formula thanks in advance Pete
what if you are using a lookup type of formula? I often get this error, using match formula from one worksheet into another. Also when there's a merged cell.
Hi I have some other problem regarding #spill error when add a unique formula referencing from a table it work fine but when I convert the range of cell that contain unique formula #spill error shows and when I convert table to range its works fine. any solution for this I am using 2 formulas for my data and I want to make it dynamic Unique and SUMIF formula. I also commented on some other videos of yours but you did not reply to my comment. hope you reply this one. Thanks
I had a similar spill issue which wasn't covered here, with previously merged/centred cells on sheet 1, while trying to copying that data to previously merged/centred cells in sheet 2. Sheet 1 with entered data to copy to the second sheet were cells D9:O9, merged/centred Sheet 2 cells to accept the data were D4:O4, merged/centred Issue: the #spill error occurred even though the cells were all the same amount of columns, just different rows, which were all merged/centred. I think the problem was I had merged and centred b e f o r e entering data into the cells. Once the data was entered just one cell and T H E N merged/centred, it behaved the way I wanted it. Hope this make sense. I sometimes struggle with Excel and formulae syntax.
Hi all, I have a situation where I need to lookup a range in a table on a spill reference, and that range needs to be dynamic. I can take the below formula to get my range to do my lookup against: =XLOOKUP(A1,$A$6:$A$7,$B$6:$K$7) And by itself this spills to the right and pulls back the correct range to do my lookup against, which I can nest within another xlookup. As soon as I change the reference to spill: =XLOOKUP(A1#,$A$6:$A$7,$B$6:$K$7) I can see the result I want by hitting F9 but when I let the calculation play out it results in the first value of the array only. Is there a workaround so that I can get this formula to spill vertically along with A1 whilst returning the array? Otherwise I'm thinking I'll likely have to preemptively drag this formula down?
Dear Leila I use excel sheet daily to report my lab results and I don't use tables and at the end of month I need to collect average of all the results during month.this is very hard and time consuming to manually collecting data and calculate average. How can excel help in that
