Excel formula is turning into a link when saved in some computers

ovgzel

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Hello all, I need help with this problem.

Spreadsheet works fine in my computer and another colleague's computer. Our computers are not networked in any way.

However, it is also opened in a computer using Chinese regional setting and language is when the formula became broken.

For example, original formula is:

=A1

When opened in the Chinese region computer, the formula turns into this:

='[sample sheet 2.xlsm]Sheet1'!$A$1


The actual name of the Spreadsheet is "sample sheet.xlsm" and the formula no longer works and shows #REF error.


NOTE: It only happens in one sheet. The other sheets are OK. I have a hunch that users might have copied over the same sheet from a duplicate workbook (with a different filename), causing the formula to generate external links.

What do you guys think? Is there other ways this could happen?

Thanks.
 

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