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    Need to Recover Lost Formula

    This is a little bizarre but help would be appreciated. We used Excel 2000 to do the bookkeeping for our business. The formulas and template that we use was set up by an accountant, and since then we always just fill it all out by ourselves. Today, however, one of our cats was on the keyboard and somehow managed to change the formula and now it doesn't work. We have no idea what the original formula was or anything, is there any way to change it back? The Undo command did not work, restarting Excel did not work, and restarting the system did not work. We do have a blank template that we can use if necessary, but just hoping that there was a better way. Is there any way to revert formulas or anything like that? I realize there is very little info to go on, so sorry, but any help would be appreciated.
    Last edited by matt97; 02-08-2009 at 08:39 PM.

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    Re: Formula Changed... Help

    If you have the original template, open it.

    Copy the formula from the template back into the cells that have been damaged in your working sheet.
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    Re: Formula Changed... Help

    Welcome to the forum.

    In order to avoid having to answer the same questions every day, we require that posters compose thread titles that make the forum usefully searchable. Your title doesn't advance that goal.

    Please take a few minutes to read the Forum Rules about thread titles, and then edit yours to make it descriptive of your problem.
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    Re: Need to Recover Lost Formula

    Thanks for the title change.

    You need to go back to a prior version of the workbook, or a template as JB suggests. Lacking either of those, post an example and explain what it was supposed to do.

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