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data refresh is altering my formulas

Latest post Mon, Jul 27 2009 12:19 PM by gjbankos. 0 replies.
  • Mon, Jul 27 2009 12:19 PM

    • gjbankos
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    data refresh is altering my formulas

    I have an excel spreadsheet (both 2003 and 2007) that pull data from a SQL server table.  The table is basically stores corporate metric information for each month.  The problem I am having is that I have other cells that add up quarterly information and the formulas are changing when new months are entered into the SQL table and pulled into the excel spreadsheet, even though I have $ signs in the formula.

    For example, my SQL table has 6 rows in it right now, Jan through June.  I have a cell with a formula that adds up the Jan - March, Apr - June, Jul - Sept, and Oct - Dec.  My cell that adds up Apr - June is =SUM(E$13:E$15).  If I throw in a July row in my SQL table then refresh the data, my cell that adds up Apr - June changes to =SUM(E$13:E$16).  The cells that add up my 3rd and 4th quarter numbers bump down a row.

    I don't want my cells that look at my external data to change when new external data is coming in.  Is there a setting that I'm missing?  Thank you in advance.

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