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29      <topic id="textscalc0502140000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
30         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Error Codes in %PRODUCTNAME Calc</title>
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35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3146797"><bookmark_value>error codes;list of</bookmark_value>
36</bookmark><comment>mw deleted "%PRODUCTNAME Calc;error codes"</comment>
37<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3146797" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/scalc/05/02140000.xhp" name="Error Codes in %PRODUCTNAME Calc">Error Codes in <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc</link></paragraph>
38      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150275" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="2">The following table is an overview of the error messages for <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Calc. If the error occurs in the cell that contains the cursor, the error message is displayed on the <emph>Status Bar</emph>.</paragraph>
39      <table id="tbl_id3147559">
40         <tablerow>
41            <tablecell>
42               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153968" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="3">Error Code</paragraph>
43            </tablecell>
44            <tablecell>
45               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3125863" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="4">Message</paragraph>
46            </tablecell>
47            <tablecell>
48               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151112" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="5">Explanation</paragraph>
49            </tablecell>
50         </tablerow>
51         <tablerow>
52            <tablecell>
53               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1668467" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">###</paragraph>
54            </tablecell>
55            <tablecell>
56<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id0202201010205429"><bookmark_value>### error message</bookmark_value>
57</bookmark><comment>mw added "...error message" entry</comment>
58<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3165766" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="13">none</paragraph>
59            </tablecell>
60            <tablecell>
61               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3169266" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">The cell is not wide enough to display the contents.</paragraph>
62            </tablecell>
63         </tablerow>
64         <tablerow>
65            <tablecell>
66               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153188" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="6">501</paragraph>
67            </tablecell>
68            <tablecell>
69               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148645" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="7">Invalid character</paragraph>
70            </tablecell>
71            <tablecell>
72               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155854" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="8">Character in a formula is not valid.</paragraph>
73            </tablecell>
74         </tablerow>
75         <tablerow>
76            <tablecell>
77               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145253" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="9">502</paragraph>
78            </tablecell>
79            <tablecell>
80               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147397" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="10">Invalid argument</paragraph>
81            </tablecell>
82            <tablecell>
83               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153160" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="11">Function argument is not valid, for example, a negative number for the root function.</paragraph>
84            </tablecell>
85         </tablerow>
86         <tablerow>
87            <tablecell>
88               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154015" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="12">503</paragraph>
89               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1628467" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#NUM!</paragraph>
90            </tablecell>
91            <tablecell>
92               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155766" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="13">Invalid floating point operation</paragraph>
93            </tablecell>
94            <tablecell>
95               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159266" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="14">A calculation results in an overflow of the defined value range.</paragraph>
96            </tablecell>
97         </tablerow>
98         <tablerow>
99            <tablecell>
100               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149258" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="15">504</paragraph>
101            </tablecell>
102            <tablecell>
103               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147344" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="16">Parameter list error</paragraph>
104            </tablecell>
105            <tablecell>
106               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147003" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="17">Function parameter is not valid, for example, text instead of a number, or a domain reference instead of cell reference.</paragraph>
107            </tablecell>
108         </tablerow>
109         <tablerow>
110            <tablecell>
111               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154532" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="27">508</paragraph>
112            </tablecell>
113            <tablecell>
114               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150107" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="28">Error: Pair missing</paragraph>
115            </tablecell>
116            <tablecell>
117               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149129" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="29">Missing bracket, for example, closing brackets, but no opening brackets</paragraph>
118            </tablecell>
119         </tablerow>
120         <tablerow>
121            <tablecell>
122               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149895" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="30">509</paragraph>
123            </tablecell>
124            <tablecell>
125               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155097" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="31">Missing operator</paragraph>
126            </tablecell>
127            <tablecell>
128               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154649" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="32">Operator is missing, for example, "=2(3+4) * ", where the operator between "2" and "(" is missing.</paragraph>
129            </tablecell>
130         </tablerow>
131         <tablerow>
132            <tablecell>
133               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153813" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="33">510</paragraph>
134            </tablecell>
135            <tablecell>
136               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153483" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="34">Missing variable</paragraph>
137            </tablecell>
138            <tablecell>
139               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154710" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="35">Variable is missing, for example when two operators are together "=1+*2".</paragraph>
140            </tablecell>
141         </tablerow>
142         <tablerow>
143            <tablecell>
144               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154739" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="36">511</paragraph>
145            </tablecell>
146            <tablecell>
147               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145112" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="37">Missing variable</paragraph>
148            </tablecell>
149            <tablecell>
150               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145319" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="38">Function requires more variables than are provided, for example, AND() and OR().</paragraph>
151            </tablecell>
152         </tablerow>
153         <tablerow>
154            <tablecell>
155               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149050" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="39">512</paragraph>
156            </tablecell>
157            <tablecell>
158               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150393" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="40">Formula overflow</paragraph>
159            </tablecell>
160            <tablecell>
161               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159259" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="41">
162                  <emph>Compiler:</emph> the total number of internal tokens, (that is, operators, variables, brackets) in the formula exceeds 512.</paragraph>
163            </tablecell>
164         </tablerow>
165         <tablerow>
166            <tablecell>
167               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150537" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="42">513</paragraph>
168            </tablecell>
169            <tablecell>
170               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147412" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="43">String overflow</paragraph>
171            </tablecell>
172            <tablecell>
173               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145635" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="44">
174                  <emph>Compiler:</emph> an identifier in the formula exceeds 64 KB in size. <emph>Interpreter:</emph> a result of a string operation exceeds 64 KB in size.</paragraph>
175            </tablecell>
176         </tablerow>
177         <tablerow>
178            <tablecell>
179               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149147" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="45">514</paragraph>
180            </tablecell>
181            <tablecell>
182               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157904" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="46">Internal overflow</paragraph>
183            </tablecell>
184            <tablecell>
185               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149352" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="47">Sort operation attempted on too much numerical data (max. 100000) or a calculation stack overflow.</paragraph>
186            </tablecell>
187         </tablerow>
188         <tablerow>
189            <tablecell>
190               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154841" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="51">516</paragraph>
191            </tablecell>
192            <tablecell>
193               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147423" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="52">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
194            </tablecell>
195            <tablecell>
196               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148437" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="53">Matrix is expected on the calculation stack, but is not available.</paragraph>
197            </tablecell>
198         </tablerow>
199         <tablerow>
200            <tablecell>
201               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155261" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="54">517</paragraph>
202            </tablecell>
203            <tablecell>
204               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153934" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="55">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
205            </tablecell>
206            <tablecell>
207               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149507" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="56">Unknown code, for example, a document with a newer function is loaded in an older version that does not contain the function.</paragraph>
208            </tablecell>
209         </tablerow>
210         <tablerow>
211            <tablecell>
212               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148585" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="57">518</paragraph>
213            </tablecell>
214            <tablecell>
215               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149189" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="58">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
216            </tablecell>
217            <tablecell>
218               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149545" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="59">Variable is not available</paragraph>
219            </tablecell>
220         </tablerow>
221         <tablerow>
222            <tablecell>
223               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146142" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="60">519</paragraph>
224               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id8169499" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#VALUE</paragraph>
225            </tablecell>
226            <tablecell>
227               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155954" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="61">No result (#VALUE is in the cell rather than Err:519!)</paragraph>
228            </tablecell>
229            <tablecell>
230               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153108" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="62">The formula yields a value that does not correspond to the definition; or a cell that is referenced in the formula contains text instead of a number.<comment>i63264</comment></paragraph>
231            </tablecell>
232         </tablerow>
233         <tablerow>
234            <tablecell>
235               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150338" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="63">520</paragraph>
236            </tablecell>
237            <tablecell>
238               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150017" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="64">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
239            </tablecell>
240            <tablecell>
241               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148758" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="65">Compiler creates an unknown compiler code.</paragraph>
242            </tablecell>
243         </tablerow>
244         <tablerow>
245            <tablecell>
246               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154324" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="66">521</paragraph>
247            </tablecell>
248            <tablecell>
249               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153737" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="67">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
250            </tablecell>
251            <tablecell>
252               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155436" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="68">No result.</paragraph>
253            </tablecell>
254         </tablerow>
255         <tablerow>
256            <tablecell>
257               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153045" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="69">522</paragraph>
258            </tablecell>
259            <tablecell>
260               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149008" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="70">Circular reference</paragraph>
261            </tablecell>
262            <tablecell>
263               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157972" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="71">Formula refers directly or indirectly to itself and the <emph>Iterations</emph> option is not set under <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences
264</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - %PRODUCTNAME Calc - Calculate.<comment>UFI: fixes #i23854#</comment></paragraph>
265            </tablecell>
266         </tablerow>
267         <tablerow>
268            <tablecell>
269               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149538" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="72">523</paragraph>
270            </tablecell>
271            <tablecell>
272               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150930" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="73">The calculation procedure does not converge</paragraph>
273            </tablecell>
274            <tablecell>
275               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150272" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="74">Function missed a targeted value, or <link href="text/shared/optionen/01060500.xhp">iterative references</link> do not reach the minimum change within the maximum steps that are set.<comment>UFI: see #33769#</comment></paragraph>
276            </tablecell>
277         </tablerow>
278         <tablerow>
279            <tablecell>
280               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153544" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="75">524</paragraph>
281               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2129886" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#REF</paragraph>
282            </tablecell>
283            <tablecell>
284<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154634"><bookmark_value>invalid references; error messages</bookmark_value>
285               <bookmark_value>error messages;invalid references</bookmark_value>
286               <bookmark_value>#REF error message</bookmark_value>
287</bookmark><comment>mw inserted "error..." entry</comment>
288<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154634" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="76">invalid references (instead of Err:524 cell contains #REF)</paragraph>
289            </tablecell>
290            <tablecell>
291               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147539" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="77">
292                  <emph>Compiler:</emph> a column or row description name could not be resolved. <emph>Interpreter:</emph> in a formula, the column, row, or sheet that contains a referenced cell is missing.</paragraph>
293            </tablecell>
294         </tablerow>
295         <tablerow>
296            <tablecell>
297               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155984" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="78">525</paragraph>
298               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id4737083" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#NAME?</paragraph>
299            </tablecell>
300            <tablecell>
301<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148428"><bookmark_value>invalid names; error messages</bookmark_value>
302               <bookmark_value>#NAME error message</bookmark_value>
303</bookmark>
304<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148428" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="79">invalid names (instead of Err:525 cell contains #NAME?)</paragraph>
305            </tablecell>
306            <tablecell>
307               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156259" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="80">An identifier could not be evaluated, for example, no valid reference, no valid domain name, no column/row label, no macro, incorrect decimal divider, add-in not found.</paragraph>
308            </tablecell>
309         </tablerow>
310         <tablerow>
311            <tablecell>
312               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153720" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="81">526</paragraph>
313            </tablecell>
314            <tablecell>
315               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154315" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="82">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
316            </tablecell>
317            <tablecell>
318               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3083286" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="83">Obsolete, no longer used, but could come from old documents if the result is a formula from a domain.</paragraph>
319            </tablecell>
320         </tablerow>
321         <tablerow>
322            <tablecell>
323               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152483" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="84">527</paragraph>
324            </tablecell>
325            <tablecell>
326               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152966" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="85">Internal overflow</paragraph>
327            </tablecell>
328            <tablecell>
329               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149709" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="86">
330                  <emph>Interpreter: </emph>References, such as when a cell references a cell, are too encapsulated.</paragraph>
331            </tablecell>
332         </tablerow>
333         <tablerow>
334            <tablecell>
335               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5324564" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">532</paragraph>
336               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3623462" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#DIV/0!</paragraph>
337            </tablecell>
338            <tablecell>
339               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7941831" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">Division by zero</paragraph>
340            </tablecell>
341            <tablecell>
342               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5844294" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">Division operator / if the denominator is 0<br/>Some more functions return this error, for example:<br/>VARP with less than 1 argument<br/>STDEVP with less than 1 argument<br/>VAR with less than 2 arguments<br/>STDEV with less than 2 arguments<br/>STANDARDIZE with stdev=0<br/>NORMDIST with stdev=0</paragraph>
343            </tablecell>
344         </tablerow>
345      </table>
346
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348</helpdocument>