How to find errors in a worksheet
Excel has great built-in features. The following one lets you search an entire worksheet for formulas that return an error.
Instructions:
- Go to "Home" tab
- Click "Find & Select"
- Click "Go to Special..."
- Click "Formulas"
- Enable "Errors"
- Click ok!
If any formulas errors exist, they are now selected. The picture below demonstrates error cells being selected.
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Excellent, thank you! Took quite a few google searches to come across this. VERY simple and helpful!
[…] For Excel for Windows, there’s an option to search a sheet for errors and go straight to them, under the “Find and select” icon in the ribbon. […]
Excellent, thank you!
we can use conditional formatting too !!
THis was very handy as teh latest version of Office 365 Win 10 has an Error Check (under Formulas tab) but it was not finding several errors. This method most most of them. They were hidden in merged cells where the left cell was find but the 3 to the right were not. THe last errors neither found were in tables where the #ref was not visible due to formatting.
Thank you so much. I was starting to go crazy.