Id'ing tabs that contain #REF!'s

I have a workbook with quite a few sheets, many having formulas that refer to
other sheets. Sometimes when I make changes to some of the cells in certain
sheets, I'll get #REF!'s on other sheets/cells. I'm thinking I'd like to have
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s., something like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok

So I could easily goto that sheet and fix the #REF!.

Is that possible ?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve wrote...
....
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s., something like:

Sheet a! * *ok
Sheet b! * *Ref
Sheet c! * *Ref
Sheet d! * *ok
....

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

Keeping your output structure as is, couldn't you use this slightly simpler
For Each loop?

Sub Foo()
Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
For Each WS In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
If Not WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues) Is Nothing Then
Debug.Print WS.Name
Res = Res & vbLf & WS.Name
End If
Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
If Res = "" Then Res = "none" Else Res = Mid$(Res, 2)
MsgBox Res, vbOKOnly, "Worksheets with #REF! errors"
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
Steve wrote...
...
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s., something
like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
...

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

I can't get the countif(indirect to work. It's producing a zero.

The macro is working, but it seems to only identify whether ref or not on
the sheet I'm on. I guess I have to go to each sheet and run the macro ?

Thanks,

Steve

"Harlan Grove" wrote:

Steve wrote...
....
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s., something like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
....

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub
.

Pretty slick. Thanks.
A few things:
I'm getting the hourglass hanging after running it.The only way to get rid
of it is to close the box or ESC.
Can the results be printed or copied to a section of a worksheet ?
It evalutas hidden sheets also. Is there a way to have it only look for
visible sheets ?
Is that a text reference to the "#ref!", meaning it's not only producing
results for the evaluated #Ref! but even if there happens to be #REF! as
text, correct ? Just curious.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Keeping your output structure as is, couldn't you use this slightly simpler
For Each loop?

Sub Foo()
Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
For Each WS In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
If Not WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues) Is Nothing Then
Debug.Print WS.Name
Res = Res & vbLf & WS.Name
End If
Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
If Res = "" Then Res = "none" Else Res = Mid$(Res, 2)
MsgBox Res, vbOKOnly, "Worksheets with #REF! errors"
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
Steve wrote...
...
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s., something
like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
...

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

.

1) The hour glass cursor is what Excel does while it is displaying a
MessageBox... I'm pretty sure you can't turn it off except to dismiss the
MessageBox.

2) You can output the contents of the Res variable anywhere you need it.
Harlan used a MessageBox and I decided to use his same output structure in
my code, hence, I also used a MessageBox. To put it in a cell, say for
example purposes on Sheet1 in Cell A1, just change the last line of code to
this...

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = Res

3) As the code was structured, it looked as Selected Sheets only... how did
you select a hidden sheet? I guess if you are running this through a loop of
all sheets, you could change this line in the If...Then statement...

WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

to this...

WS.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Find(What :="#REF!",LookIn:=xlValues)

4) Yes, depending on what your last Find settings were, it *might* find
#REF!, #Ref!, #ref!, etc. as a text string within cells displaying text
containing those characters. I say "might" because Find has a "feature"
whereby it remembers the settings previously assigned to its arguments. So,
if you had previously set the LookAt argument to xlPart, then it would find
the text #REF! within a larger piece of text containing it. Whether if would
find the other cases (#Ref!, #ref!, etc.) would depend on the previous
setting for the MatchCase argument. I assumed that such text would not
appear in your cell's normal text strings, so I didn't account for it. We
could control it somewhat be changing my Find function reference in the
If..Then statement to this...

Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole, MatchCase:=True)

This would still find "#REF!" as a text string IF your user decided to type
that into a cell or if you had any formulas that returned that exact text
string (which, personally, I think would be a silly thing to do). However,
if even this is a possibility, then you would need to go with Harlan's code
as he restricts his search to only those cells that returned an error.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Pretty slick. Thanks.
A few things:
I'm getting the hourglass hanging after running it.The only way to get rid
of it is to close the box or ESC.
Can the results be printed or copied to a section of a worksheet ?
It evalutas hidden sheets also. Is there a way to have it only look for
visible sheets ?
Is that a text reference to the "#ref!", meaning it's not only producing
results for the evaluated #Ref! but even if there happens to be #REF! as
text, correct ? Just curious.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Keeping your output structure as is, couldn't you use this slightly
simpler
For Each loop?

Sub Foo()
Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
For Each WS In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
If Not WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues) Is Nothing Then
Debug.Print WS.Name
Res = Res & vbLf & WS.Name
End If
Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
If Res = "" Then Res = "none" Else Res = Mid$(Res, 2)
MsgBox Res, vbOKOnly, "Worksheets with #REF! errors"
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
Steve wrote...
...
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s., something
like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
...

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

.

Thank you very much for the very thorough explanations.
I just had those sheets hidden, but your suggested fix now looks at only the
visible sheets.

Two last things:
Is there a way to put the list starting in A1 thru, e.g. A20. This currently
is putting the entire list in just A1, causing Row 1 to be very, very tall.
Also, it seems to be listing sheets that do not have #REF! in them. I did
searches for them thinking it had #REF!s, but the search resulted in no
#REF!s being found.
I also double-checked via this from Cal =COUNTIF(Sheet2!A1:Z400,#REF!) and
that also is showing no #REF!s.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

1) The hour glass cursor is what Excel does while it is displaying a
MessageBox... I'm pretty sure you can't turn it off except to dismiss the
MessageBox.

2) You can output the contents of the Res variable anywhere you need it.
Harlan used a MessageBox and I decided to use his same output structure in
my code, hence, I also used a MessageBox. To put it in a cell, say for
example purposes on Sheet1 in Cell A1, just change the last line of code to
this...

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = Res

3) As the code was structured, it looked as Selected Sheets only... how did
you select a hidden sheet? I guess if you are running this through a loop of
all sheets, you could change this line in the If...Then statement...

WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

to this...

WS.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Find(What :="#REF!",LookIn:=xlValues)

4) Yes, depending on what your last Find settings were, it *might* find
#REF!, #Ref!, #ref!, etc. as a text string within cells displaying text
containing those characters. I say "might" because Find has a "feature"
whereby it remembers the settings previously assigned to its arguments. So,
if you had previously set the LookAt argument to xlPart, then it would find
the text #REF! within a larger piece of text containing it. Whether if would
find the other cases (#Ref!, #ref!, etc.) would depend on the previous
setting for the MatchCase argument. I assumed that such text would not
appear in your cell's normal text strings, so I didn't account for it. We
could control it somewhat be changing my Find function reference in the
If..Then statement to this...

Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole, MatchCase:=True)

This would still find "#REF!" as a text string IF your user decided to type
that into a cell or if you had any formulas that returned that exact text
string (which, personally, I think would be a silly thing to do). However,
if even this is a possibility, then you would need to go with Harlan's code
as he restricts his search to only those cells that returned an error.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Pretty slick. Thanks.
A few things:
I'm getting the hourglass hanging after running it.The only way to get rid
of it is to close the box or ESC.
Can the results be printed or copied to a section of a worksheet ?
It evalutas hidden sheets also. Is there a way to have it only look for
visible sheets ?
Is that a text reference to the "#ref!", meaning it's not only producing
results for the evaluated #Ref! but even if there happens to be #REF! as
text, correct ? Just curious.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Keeping your output structure as is, couldn't you use this slightly
simpler
For Each loop?

Sub Foo()
Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
For Each WS In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
If Not WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues) Is Nothing Then
Debug.Print WS.Name
Res = Res & vbLf & WS.Name
End If
Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
If Res = "" Then Res = "none" Else Res = Mid$(Res, 2)
MsgBox Res, vbOKOnly, "Worksheets with #REF! errors"
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
Steve wrote...
...
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s., something
like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
...

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

.

.

I'm not sure what to tell you about finding #REF! errors on sheets that do
not have them... I cannot duplicate that result here. If you want to send
your workbook to me so that I can see it happen, then maybe I'll be able to
figure out why. If you choose to do this, just remove the NO.SPAM stuff from
my listed email address.

As for making the list print out in multiple cells, do the following...

Change the Dim statement to this...

Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String, TempArray() As String

Then replace the last line of code with these lines...

TempArray = Split(Res, vbLf)
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
.Columns(1).Clear
.Range("A1").Resize(1 + UBound(TempArray)) = _
WorksheetFunction.Transpose(TempArray)
End With

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Thank you very much for the very thorough explanations.
I just had those sheets hidden, but your suggested fix now looks at only
the
visible sheets.

Two last things:
Is there a way to put the list starting in A1 thru, e.g. A20. This
currently
is putting the entire list in just A1, causing Row 1 to be very, very
tall.
Also, it seems to be listing sheets that do not have #REF! in them. I did
searches for them thinking it had #REF!s, but the search resulted in no
#REF!s being found.
I also double-checked via this from Cal =COUNTIF(Sheet2!A1:Z400,#REF!) and
that also is showing no #REF!s.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

1) The hour glass cursor is what Excel does while it is displaying a
MessageBox... I'm pretty sure you can't turn it off except to dismiss the
MessageBox.

2) You can output the contents of the Res variable anywhere you need it.
Harlan used a MessageBox and I decided to use his same output structure
in
my code, hence, I also used a MessageBox. To put it in a cell, say for
example purposes on Sheet1 in Cell A1, just change the last line of code
to
this...

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = Res

3) As the code was structured, it looked as Selected Sheets only... how
did
you select a hidden sheet? I guess if you are running this through a loop
of
all sheets, you could change this line in the If...Then statement...

WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

to this...

WS.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Find(What :="#REF!",LookIn:=xlValues)

4) Yes, depending on what your last Find settings were, it *might* find
#REF!, #Ref!, #ref!, etc. as a text string within cells displaying text
containing those characters. I say "might" because Find has a "feature"
whereby it remembers the settings previously assigned to its arguments.
So,
if you had previously set the LookAt argument to xlPart, then it would
find
the text #REF! within a larger piece of text containing it. Whether if
would
find the other cases (#Ref!, #ref!, etc.) would depend on the previous
setting for the MatchCase argument. I assumed that such text would not
appear in your cell's normal text strings, so I didn't account for it. We
could control it somewhat be changing my Find function reference in the
If..Then statement to this...

Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole, MatchCase:=True)

This would still find "#REF!" as a text string IF your user decided to
type
that into a cell or if you had any formulas that returned that exact text
string (which, personally, I think would be a silly thing to do).
However,
if even this is a possibility, then you would need to go with Harlan's
code
as he restricts his search to only those cells that returned an error.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Pretty slick. Thanks.
A few things:
I'm getting the hourglass hanging after running it.The only way to get
rid
of it is to close the box or ESC.
Can the results be printed or copied to a section of a worksheet ?
It evalutas hidden sheets also. Is there a way to have it only look for
visible sheets ?
Is that a text reference to the "#ref!", meaning it's not only
producing
results for the evaluated #Ref! but even if there happens to be #REF!
as
text, correct ? Just curious.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Keeping your output structure as is, couldn't you use this slightly
simpler
For Each loop?

Sub Foo()
Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
For Each WS In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
If Not WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues) Is Nothing
Then
Debug.Print WS.Name
Res = Res & vbLf & WS.Name
End If
Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
If Res = "" Then Res = "none" Else Res = Mid$(Res, 2)
MsgBox Res, vbOKOnly, "Worksheets with #REF! errors"
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
Steve wrote...
...
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s.,
something
like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
...

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list
the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

.

.

Thanks. I just sent it to you.
Nicely putting names in the entire A column now, but still all sheets, not
just the #REF! sheets.

Thanks again,

Steve

"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

I'm not sure what to tell you about finding #REF! errors on sheets that do
not have them... I cannot duplicate that result here. If you want to send
your workbook to me so that I can see it happen, then maybe I'll be able to
figure out why. If you choose to do this, just remove the NO.SPAM stuff from
my listed email address.

As for making the list print out in multiple cells, do the following...

Change the Dim statement to this...

Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String, TempArray() As String

Then replace the last line of code with these lines...

TempArray = Split(Res, vbLf)
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
.Columns(1).Clear
.Range("A1").Resize(1 + UBound(TempArray)) = _
WorksheetFunction.Transpose(TempArray)
End With

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Thank you very much for the very thorough explanations.
I just had those sheets hidden, but your suggested fix now looks at only
the
visible sheets.

Two last things:
Is there a way to put the list starting in A1 thru, e.g. A20. This
currently
is putting the entire list in just A1, causing Row 1 to be very, very
tall.
Also, it seems to be listing sheets that do not have #REF! in them. I did
searches for them thinking it had #REF!s, but the search resulted in no
#REF!s being found.
I also double-checked via this from Cal =COUNTIF(Sheet2!A1:Z400,#REF!) and
that also is showing no #REF!s.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

1) The hour glass cursor is what Excel does while it is displaying a
MessageBox... I'm pretty sure you can't turn it off except to dismiss the
MessageBox.

2) You can output the contents of the Res variable anywhere you need it.
Harlan used a MessageBox and I decided to use his same output structure
in
my code, hence, I also used a MessageBox. To put it in a cell, say for
example purposes on Sheet1 in Cell A1, just change the last line of code
to
this...

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = Res

3) As the code was structured, it looked as Selected Sheets only... how
did
you select a hidden sheet? I guess if you are running this through a loop
of
all sheets, you could change this line in the If...Then statement...

WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

to this...

WS.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Find(What :="#REF!",LookIn:=xlValues)

4) Yes, depending on what your last Find settings were, it *might* find
#REF!, #Ref!, #ref!, etc. as a text string within cells displaying text
containing those characters. I say "might" because Find has a "feature"
whereby it remembers the settings previously assigned to its arguments.
So,
if you had previously set the LookAt argument to xlPart, then it would
find
the text #REF! within a larger piece of text containing it. Whether if
would
find the other cases (#Ref!, #ref!, etc.) would depend on the previous
setting for the MatchCase argument. I assumed that such text would not
appear in your cell's normal text strings, so I didn't account for it. We
could control it somewhat be changing my Find function reference in the
If..Then statement to this...

Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole, MatchCase:=True)

This would still find "#REF!" as a text string IF your user decided to
type
that into a cell or if you had any formulas that returned that exact text
string (which, personally, I think would be a silly thing to do).
However,
if even this is a possibility, then you would need to go with Harlan's
code
as he restricts his search to only those cells that returned an error.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Pretty slick. Thanks.
A few things:
I'm getting the hourglass hanging after running it.The only way to get
rid
of it is to close the box or ESC.
Can the results be printed or copied to a section of a worksheet ?
It evalutas hidden sheets also. Is there a way to have it only look for
visible sheets ?
Is that a text reference to the "#ref!", meaning it's not only
producing
results for the evaluated #Ref! but even if there happens to be #REF!
as
text, correct ? Just curious.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Keeping your output structure as is, couldn't you use this slightly
simpler
For Each loop?

Sub Foo()
Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
For Each WS In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
If Not WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues) Is Nothing
Then
Debug.Print WS.Name
Res = Res & vbLf & WS.Name
End If
Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
If Res = "" Then Res = "none" Else Res = Mid$(Res, 2)
MsgBox Res, vbOKOnly, "Worksheets with #REF! errors"
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
Steve wrote...
...
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s.,
something
like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
...

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list
the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

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I removed the No.SPAM in front of and after the @ but it got kicked back as
undeliverable.

"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

I'm not sure what to tell you about finding #REF! errors on sheets that do
not have them... I cannot duplicate that result here. If you want to send
your workbook to me so that I can see it happen, then maybe I'll be able to
figure out why. If you choose to do this, just remove the NO.SPAM stuff from
my listed email address.

As for making the list print out in multiple cells, do the following...

Change the Dim statement to this...

Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String, TempArray() As String

Then replace the last line of code with these lines...

TempArray = Split(Res, vbLf)
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
.Columns(1).Clear
.Range("A1").Resize(1 + UBound(TempArray)) = _
WorksheetFunction.Transpose(TempArray)
End With

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Thank you very much for the very thorough explanations.
I just had those sheets hidden, but your suggested fix now looks at only
the
visible sheets.

Two last things:
Is there a way to put the list starting in A1 thru, e.g. A20. This
currently
is putting the entire list in just A1, causing Row 1 to be very, very
tall.
Also, it seems to be listing sheets that do not have #REF! in them. I did
searches for them thinking it had #REF!s, but the search resulted in no
#REF!s being found.
I also double-checked via this from Cal =COUNTIF(Sheet2!A1:Z400,#REF!) and
that also is showing no #REF!s.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

1) The hour glass cursor is what Excel does while it is displaying a
MessageBox... I'm pretty sure you can't turn it off except to dismiss the
MessageBox.

2) You can output the contents of the Res variable anywhere you need it.
Harlan used a MessageBox and I decided to use his same output structure
in
my code, hence, I also used a MessageBox. To put it in a cell, say for
example purposes on Sheet1 in Cell A1, just change the last line of code
to
this...

Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = Res

3) As the code was structured, it looked as Selected Sheets only... how
did
you select a hidden sheet? I guess if you are running this through a loop
of
all sheets, you could change this line in the If...Then statement...

WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

to this...

WS.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Find(What :="#REF!",LookIn:=xlValues)

4) Yes, depending on what your last Find settings were, it *might* find
#REF!, #Ref!, #ref!, etc. as a text string within cells displaying text
containing those characters. I say "might" because Find has a "feature"
whereby it remembers the settings previously assigned to its arguments.
So,
if you had previously set the LookAt argument to xlPart, then it would
find
the text #REF! within a larger piece of text containing it. Whether if
would
find the other cases (#Ref!, #ref!, etc.) would depend on the previous
setting for the MatchCase argument. I assumed that such text would not
appear in your cell's normal text strings, so I didn't account for it. We
could control it somewhat be changing my Find function reference in the
If..Then statement to this...

Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlWhole, MatchCase:=True)

This would still find "#REF!" as a text string IF your user decided to
type
that into a cell or if you had any formulas that returned that exact text
string (which, personally, I think would be a silly thing to do).
However,
if even this is a possibility, then you would need to go with Harlan's
code
as he restricts his search to only those cells that returned an error.

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Steve" wrote in message
...
Pretty slick. Thanks.
A few things:
I'm getting the hourglass hanging after running it.The only way to get
rid
of it is to close the box or ESC.
Can the results be printed or copied to a section of a worksheet ?
It evalutas hidden sheets also. Is there a way to have it only look for
visible sheets ?
Is that a text reference to the "#ref!", meaning it's not only
producing
results for the evaluated #Ref! but even if there happens to be #REF!
as
text, correct ? Just curious.

Thanks again,

Steve
"Rick Rothstein" wrote:

Keeping your output structure as is, couldn't you use this slightly
simpler
For Each loop?

Sub Foo()
Dim WS As Worksheet, Res As String
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
For Each WS In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
If Not WS.Cells.Find(What:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues) Is Nothing
Then
Debug.Print WS.Name
Res = Res & vbLf & WS.Name
End If
Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")
If Res = "" Then Res = "none" Else Res = Mid$(Res, 2)
MsgBox Res, vbOKOnly, "Worksheets with #REF! errors"
End Sub

--
Rick (MVP - Excel)



"Harlan Grove" wrote in message
...
Steve wrote...
...
a separate sheet that would show which sheets have #REF!'s.,
something
like:

Sheet a! ok
Sheet b! Ref
Sheet c! Ref
Sheet d! ok
...

If you want to identify worksheets which have cells evaluating to
#REF!, then with the worksheet name in cell A3, you could use the
formula

=IF(COUNTIF(INDIRECT("'"&A3&"'!A:IV"),"=#REF!"),"R ef","ok")

Note that such formulas recalculate very slowly. Since you wouldn't
need to do this often, you may be better off using a macro to list
the
worksheets with cells evaluating to #REF!. Something like


Sub foo()
Dim ws As Worksheet, wsc As Sheets, res As String

If ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.Count 1 Then
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets
Else
Set wsc = ActiveWindow.Parent.Worksheets
End If

On Error Resume Next
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

For Each ws In wsc
Call ws.UsedRange _
.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeFormulas, xlErrors) _
.Find(what:="#REF!", LookIn:=xlValues)

If Err.Number = 0 Then
res = res & vbLf & ws.Name
Debug.Print ws.Name
Else
Err.Clear
End If
Next ws

On Error GoTo 0
Debug.Print String$(40, "-")

If res = "" Then res = "none" Else res = Mid$(res, 2)
MsgBox Title:="Worksheets with #REF! errors", Prompt:=res,
Buttons:=vbOKOnly

End Sub

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