Comments on: Circular References – The Good Kind

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:05:00 +0000

Isn’t there a way to leave iterations always on by putting something in the registry? Usually use Excel to make simulations of scientific problems and it is annoying to have to switch iteration on all the time. Trying to avoid macros I was hoping there would be a registry key overriding this behaviour and set iteration = always on. Anyone?

By: Paul Bonneau

Paul Bonneau — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:28:00 +0000

I have found that if you need to debug an iterative process, you can set the number of iterations to 1 in Tools>Options>Calculation and just step through it.

By: maarten

maarten — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:40:00 +0000

If you assign the macro to the Open event for the workbook, then it will run every time the workbook is opened, ensuring that you won't see the warning you don't want to see. The macro appears as follows:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Iteration = True
End Sub

If you have a Personal.xls workbook defined for your system, you can add this macro to it instead of to individual workbooks. In that way you can ensure that the Iteration check box is always selected for every Excel session.

By: ross

ross — Thu, 13 May 2004 10:30:00 +0000

Application.DisplayAlerts = False, not what your looking for i geuss Ron, buy you might be able to assign a keyboard short cut and toggle it on and off if your writing losts of cir refs.

On another not cir ref must be used carefully, esp. when dealing with tax, becase they make assumptions about when the tax (in this case) is companded - see the paper "Business Dynamics, Spreadsheet Modelling Best Practice" [4-31,32] for more info.

- doing a google with the qoute marks will bring up the papaer.

By: khodge

khodge — Wed, 12 May 2004 23:10:00 +0000

Hitting the escape key avoids Help

By: Ron Berry

Ron Berry — Wed, 12 May 2004 19:06:00 +0000

I also hate it when Excel automatically pops up the “Help” window describing circular references. This is very annoying, and I’m wondering if someone knows of how to disable this. I’m thinking it probably can’t be disabled, so is it possible to write VBA code that will initiate when help displays info on circular references? Could the code automatically cancel the help window when the circular references screen came up? I’m assuming that there may be a help ID number associated with the circular references help screen. Any ideas? Thanks,
Ron