Excel Error "Excel ran out of resources while attempting to calculate" upon calculation interruption

Anonymous
2025-02-06T22:04:26+00:00

I am using Excel, latest version for Mac, 16.93.1 (25011917), and following a recent update either to 16.93 or 16.93.1 I have systematically an error message if I interrupt a calculation : "Excel ran out of resources while attempting to calculate one or more formulas. As a result, these formulas cannot be evaluated." after this error I must always quit excel and restart which is very annoying. Anyone having the same issue ?

Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For business | MacOS

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-13T00:38:37+00:00

    Thank you, I have been given instructions on how to upload, that isn't the issue.

    Our sheets are large and contain confidential information. They also depend on 3rd party add-ins that we can't re-distribute. We don't have time to make a frozen values-only replica, as we'd need to make stubs for the 3rd party add-in function calls - there are alot.

    I don't understand why Microsoft Customer Support can't at least acknowledge what is being reported here, it is classic customer bikeshedding.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-13T00:42:42+00:00

    Hi, can you please share that workbook? Dropbox?

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  3. Jim G 134.1K Reputation points MVP
    2025-03-13T01:48:15+00:00

    Hi

    This forum is not Microsoft Support. It is populated by other users who voluntarily help each other.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-13T02:11:20+00:00

    I appreciate you trying to help me, but I understand the modus operandi of this forum.

    I've not suggested anywhere that this is MS Customer support, simply that I am engaging with them now. I do note that one of the contributors to this thread seems to be an MSFT employee (Snow Lu).

    I just find it frustrating that MS support refuse to look at what has been raised here. Instead, they are asking me to do disruptive and laborious profiling/logging, purely as a pre-requisite to looking at what has been raised here.

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  5. Jim G 134.1K Reputation points MVP
    2025-03-13T19:50:37+00:00

    Hi David & Aaron

    Thanks for the file to reproduce the problem. I am able to reproduce this error on both Mac and Windows Excel. The link to the file has been shared with the Microsoft Excel team so they can investigate.

    -Jim

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