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Re: st: Excel & Stata: autocalculate does not work
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[email protected] (Hua Peng)
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Re: st: Excel & Stata: autocalculate does not work
Date
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:30:23 -0600
Sem Vandekerckhove <[email protected]> asks how to force
Excel to recalculate cells:
> When using the new -export excel- command in Stata 12 to export values to
> Excel 2007, I noticed that Excel does not update existing fields using the
> new values (e.g. an average) until you re-enter the formula. Is there any
> way to fix this, besides autocalculation which is already on? Is it due to
> Stata exporting figures to a text field or is it Excel being stubborn (what
> about Excel 2010)?
This is a "limitation" of Excel. Excel caches the value of computed cells
and does not recalculate these cells when opening the file. Although reentering
the formula forces a recalculation, a simpler method by pressing
"Ctrl+Alt+F9" will recalculate all cells in all open workbooks.
--Hua
[email protected]
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