Excel 2016 Mac Problem Bug Linking Cells Between Worksheets

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I have multiple worksheets in my excel document. I am trying to link data from a cell on worksheet 2 to a cell on worksheet 1. I enter "=" in the cell on Worksheet 1 and then click on Worksheet 2 and go to the cell that I want to reference/link. When I click on it, nothing happens in the cell on Worksheet 1. Yet the formula appears on a random cell in Worksheet 2. I have had no problem doing this before and the same workbook/document has multiple inter-sheet links from previous work I have done on it. All of a sudden this problem started happening today. Please help me figure this out. Very frustrating. Thank you. Brad.

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Hi Everyone,

I’d like to make a summary about this case, so other community members who come across this thread will easily find the useful information:

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Issue description:

The formula/value will be in a random cell after linking cells between worksheets when you store the workbooks in Dropbox.

More information:

Original, we have identified the issue will disappear when we go to the Dropbox settings and set the Dropbox badge to "Never show"..

Now, the issue should have gone away. It seems that the issue has been fixed by Dropbox in their latest release. For more information, refer to:

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Sharing-and-collaboration/Issue-with-Excel-files/m-p/213012#M13803

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If you have any other questions, feel free to start a new thread and we will keep assisting you from there.

Regards,

Sky

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Anonymous

2017-04-05T04:33:16+00:00

I found that if I use the = for linking cell in Worksheet#2 from worksheet#1 the formula is in one of the cells in the Worksheet#2. It does not reflect in the worksheet#1.

Further in Office 2011 I could copy the formulas of a cell from one worksheet to another. This is also not working now.
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Anonymous

2017-04-04T19:01:33+00:00

Philippe, I think you are correct. It was not happening before (other then some buggy stuff with the curser not selecting the right cell, but the one above it, etc.) and only started happening recently and I have autoupdates on. Wish we can go back to before this update. Seems kind of strange to have an update that makes things worse instead of fixing stuff.
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Anonymous

2017-04-04T18:23:15+00:00

It really is very frustrating to work under these problems ... I got in touch with the office people and they have not given me any solution!

Please someone who has already been able to solve the problem that highlights us .....

Thank you!
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Anonymous

2017-04-04T16:05:12+00:00

Hi

I've updated with the latest office 365 pack (last week) and the same problem has suddenly happened.

I did uninstall/install excel right now, and have still the same issue.

when I want to insert an external value coming from another sheet from another excel file, and especially when there are pivot table in the sheet (even) the value which is reported is wrong, and is coming from the initial sheet itself.

It sounds clearly like a bug implemented in the latest update.

please advise when a patch will be provided.

philippe
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