May 07, 2020 Ideally, Excel would have an overall setting to refresh the worksheet every ‘n’ seconds or minutes. As it stands, we need workarounds to make it happen. Here’s some situations where forcing data refresh or recalculation might be necessary or prudent. Enabling the “Manual” option will turn off calculations in Excel. Open worksheets will only be recalculated when we force Excel to recalculate. How to Force Excel to Recalculate. When we open a worksheet and excel is not recalculating our imputed formulas, it most likely means that Excel auto calculate is OFF.
Excel’s Smart Recalculation Engine
Excel 2007 Manual Recalculation
Excel has a complex and finely tuned algorithm for choosing the fastest sequence and the minimum number of cells required to calculate the correct answer.
This algorithm was changed significantly when the calculation engine was rewritten in Excel 97, and further changes have been made in Excel 2002 and 2007.
| Excel normally only calculates the minimum number of cells possible. | Excel’s smart recalculation engine normally minimises calculation time by tracking changes and only recalculating
However Defined Names are recalculated each time a formula that directly refers to the name is recalculated. Note that the process of calculating cells that are dependent on previously calculated cells continues even if the value of a cell does not change when it is calculated. This smart recalculation usually only takes a fraction of the time for a full calculation of all the formulae in the workbook, although sometimes the extra work required can make it slower than a full calculation. So if a recalculation takes a long time, try a full calculation to see if its faster. |
Worksheets and Workbooks are then also flagged as containing uncalculated cells.
There are exceptions to this change tracking and smart recalculation process:
- From Excel 2000 opening a workbook in Automatic mode that was last calculated (and saved) in an earlier version (which includes earlier versions of the calculation engine) gives you a message saying 'Microsoft Excel recalculates formulas when opening files last saved by an earlier version of Excel'. This also causes a Full Calculation rather than a smart recalculation.
Jim Rech has posted a registry fix that prevents the Full calculation:
- To stop this you need to make a registry entry (Start->Run 'Regedit' (no quotes)).
- Under: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice9.0ExcelOptions create a new DWORD item named: FullCalcOnLoadOldFile
- Leave its value at the default of 0. - Volatile functions are always calculated.
- Full Calculation (Ctrl-Alt-F9), which calculates ALL cells.
- More than 65536 Dependencies , which causes full calculations rather than smart recalculations.
- Setting the Worksheet.EnableCalculation property to False will prevent uncalculated cells on a worksheet from being calculated. Setting Worksheet.EnableCalculation back to True will then cause all the formulae on the sheet to be flagged as uncalculated.
- Unused names are never calculated.
- Names are calculated each time they are referenced by a formula that is recalculated.
Excel Manual Calculation Not Working
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F9 Manual Recalculate only for one workbook Press Alt F11. Select the ThisWorkbook module for the VBA project your editing. Paste this in. Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean) Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic End Sub Private Sub Workbook_Open() Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual End Sub -- HTH, Barb Reinhardt If this post was helpful to you, please click YES below. 'Tenacity9' wrote: Setting Tools-Options-Calculation to manual (ie, have to use F9) changes the preference for all open workbooks in Excel 2003. If you only want manual recalculation to apply to a particular workbook permanently (in other words until the preference is changed back to automatic), but other open workbooks and all new workbooks to be calculated automatically (ie, no F9), is there a way to accomplish this easily? Thanks. |