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35      <topic id="textscalc0502140000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
36         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Error Codes in %PRODUCTNAME Calc</title>
37         <filename>/text/scalc/05/02140000.xhp</filename>
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41<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3146797"><bookmark_value>error codes;list of</bookmark_value>
42</bookmark><comment>mw deleted "%PRODUCTNAME Calc;error codes"</comment>
43<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>
44      <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>
45      <table id="tbl_id3147559">
46         <tablerow>
47            <tablecell>
48               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153968" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="3">Error Code</paragraph>
49            </tablecell>
50            <tablecell>
51               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3125863" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="4">Message</paragraph>
52            </tablecell>
53            <tablecell>
54               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151112" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="5">Explanation</paragraph>
55            </tablecell>
56         </tablerow>
57         <tablerow>
58            <tablecell>
59               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1668467" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">###</paragraph>
60            </tablecell>
61            <tablecell>
62<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id0202201010205429"><bookmark_value>### error message</bookmark_value>
63</bookmark><comment>mw added "...error message" entry</comment>
64<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3165766" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="13">none</paragraph>
65            </tablecell>
66            <tablecell>
67               <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>
68            </tablecell>
69         </tablerow>
70         <tablerow>
71            <tablecell>
72               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153188" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="6">501</paragraph>
73            </tablecell>
74            <tablecell>
75               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148645" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="7">Invalid character</paragraph>
76            </tablecell>
77            <tablecell>
78               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155854" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="8">Character in a formula is not valid.</paragraph>
79            </tablecell>
80         </tablerow>
81         <tablerow>
82            <tablecell>
83               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145253" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="9">502</paragraph>
84            </tablecell>
85            <tablecell>
86               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147397" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="10">Invalid argument</paragraph>
87            </tablecell>
88            <tablecell>
89               <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>
90            </tablecell>
91         </tablerow>
92         <tablerow>
93            <tablecell>
94               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154015" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="12">503</paragraph>
95               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1628467" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#NUM!</paragraph>
96            </tablecell>
97            <tablecell>
98               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155766" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="13">Invalid floating point operation</paragraph>
99            </tablecell>
100            <tablecell>
101               <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>
102            </tablecell>
103         </tablerow>
104         <tablerow>
105            <tablecell>
106               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149258" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="15">504</paragraph>
107            </tablecell>
108            <tablecell>
109               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147344" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="16">Parameter list error</paragraph>
110            </tablecell>
111            <tablecell>
112               <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>
113            </tablecell>
114         </tablerow>
115         <tablerow>
116            <tablecell>
117               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154532" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="27">508</paragraph>
118            </tablecell>
119            <tablecell>
120               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150107" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="28">Error: Pair missing</paragraph>
121            </tablecell>
122            <tablecell>
123               <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>
124            </tablecell>
125         </tablerow>
126         <tablerow>
127            <tablecell>
128               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149895" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="30">509</paragraph>
129            </tablecell>
130            <tablecell>
131               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155097" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="31">Missing operator</paragraph>
132            </tablecell>
133            <tablecell>
134               <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>
135            </tablecell>
136         </tablerow>
137         <tablerow>
138            <tablecell>
139               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153813" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="33">510</paragraph>
140            </tablecell>
141            <tablecell>
142               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153483" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="34">Missing variable</paragraph>
143            </tablecell>
144            <tablecell>
145               <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>
146            </tablecell>
147         </tablerow>
148         <tablerow>
149            <tablecell>
150               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154739" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="36">511</paragraph>
151            </tablecell>
152            <tablecell>
153               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145112" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="37">Missing variable</paragraph>
154            </tablecell>
155            <tablecell>
156               <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>
157            </tablecell>
158         </tablerow>
159         <tablerow>
160            <tablecell>
161               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149050" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="39">512</paragraph>
162            </tablecell>
163            <tablecell>
164               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150393" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="40">Formula overflow</paragraph>
165            </tablecell>
166            <tablecell>
167               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159259" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="41">
168                  <emph>Compiler:</emph> the total number of internal tokens, (that is, operators, variables, brackets) in the formula exceeds 512.</paragraph>
169            </tablecell>
170         </tablerow>
171         <tablerow>
172            <tablecell>
173               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150537" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="42">513</paragraph>
174            </tablecell>
175            <tablecell>
176               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147412" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="43">String overflow</paragraph>
177            </tablecell>
178            <tablecell>
179               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145635" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="44">
180                  <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>
181            </tablecell>
182         </tablerow>
183         <tablerow>
184            <tablecell>
185               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149147" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="45">514</paragraph>
186            </tablecell>
187            <tablecell>
188               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157904" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="46">Internal overflow</paragraph>
189            </tablecell>
190            <tablecell>
191               <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>
192            </tablecell>
193         </tablerow>
194         <tablerow>
195            <tablecell>
196               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154841" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="51">516</paragraph>
197            </tablecell>
198            <tablecell>
199               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147423" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="52">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
200            </tablecell>
201            <tablecell>
202               <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>
203            </tablecell>
204         </tablerow>
205         <tablerow>
206            <tablecell>
207               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155261" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="54">517</paragraph>
208            </tablecell>
209            <tablecell>
210               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153934" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="55">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
211            </tablecell>
212            <tablecell>
213               <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>
214            </tablecell>
215         </tablerow>
216         <tablerow>
217            <tablecell>
218               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148585" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="57">518</paragraph>
219            </tablecell>
220            <tablecell>
221               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149189" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="58">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
222            </tablecell>
223            <tablecell>
224               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149545" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="59">Variable is not available</paragraph>
225            </tablecell>
226         </tablerow>
227         <tablerow>
228            <tablecell>
229               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3146142" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="60">519</paragraph>
230               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id8169499" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#VALUE</paragraph>
231            </tablecell>
232            <tablecell>
233               <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>
234            </tablecell>
235            <tablecell>
236               <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>
237            </tablecell>
238         </tablerow>
239         <tablerow>
240            <tablecell>
241               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150338" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="63">520</paragraph>
242            </tablecell>
243            <tablecell>
244               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150017" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="64">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
245            </tablecell>
246            <tablecell>
247               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148758" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="65">Compiler creates an unknown compiler code.</paragraph>
248            </tablecell>
249         </tablerow>
250         <tablerow>
251            <tablecell>
252               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154324" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="66">521</paragraph>
253            </tablecell>
254            <tablecell>
255               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153737" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="67">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
256            </tablecell>
257            <tablecell>
258               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155436" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="68">No result.</paragraph>
259            </tablecell>
260         </tablerow>
261         <tablerow>
262            <tablecell>
263               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153045" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="69">522</paragraph>
264            </tablecell>
265            <tablecell>
266               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149008" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="70">Circular reference</paragraph>
267            </tablecell>
268            <tablecell>
269               <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
270</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - %PRODUCTNAME Calc - Calculate.<comment>UFI: fixes #i23854#</comment></paragraph>
271            </tablecell>
272         </tablerow>
273         <tablerow>
274            <tablecell>
275               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149538" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="72">523</paragraph>
276            </tablecell>
277            <tablecell>
278               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150930" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="73">The calculation procedure does not converge</paragraph>
279            </tablecell>
280            <tablecell>
281               <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>
282            </tablecell>
283         </tablerow>
284         <tablerow>
285            <tablecell>
286               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153544" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="75">524</paragraph>
287               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2129886" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#REF</paragraph>
288            </tablecell>
289            <tablecell>
290<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154634"><bookmark_value>invalid references; error messages</bookmark_value>
291               <bookmark_value>error messages;invalid references</bookmark_value>
292               <bookmark_value>#REF error message</bookmark_value>
293</bookmark><comment>mw inserted "error..." entry</comment>
294<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154634" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="76">invalid references (instead of Err:524 cell contains #REF)</paragraph>
295            </tablecell>
296            <tablecell>
297               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147539" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="77">
298                  <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>
299            </tablecell>
300         </tablerow>
301         <tablerow>
302            <tablecell>
303               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155984" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="78">525</paragraph>
304               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id4737083" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#NAME?</paragraph>
305            </tablecell>
306            <tablecell>
307<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148428"><bookmark_value>invalid names; error messages</bookmark_value>
308               <bookmark_value>#NAME error message</bookmark_value>
309</bookmark>
310<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148428" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="79">invalid names (instead of Err:525 cell contains #NAME?)</paragraph>
311            </tablecell>
312            <tablecell>
313               <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>
314            </tablecell>
315         </tablerow>
316         <tablerow>
317            <tablecell>
318               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153720" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="81">526</paragraph>
319            </tablecell>
320            <tablecell>
321               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154315" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="82">Internal syntax error</paragraph>
322            </tablecell>
323            <tablecell>
324               <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>
325            </tablecell>
326         </tablerow>
327         <tablerow>
328            <tablecell>
329               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152483" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="84">527</paragraph>
330            </tablecell>
331            <tablecell>
332               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152966" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="85">Internal overflow</paragraph>
333            </tablecell>
334            <tablecell>
335               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149709" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="86">
336                  <emph>Interpreter: </emph>References, such as when a cell references a cell, are too encapsulated.</paragraph>
337            </tablecell>
338         </tablerow>
339         <tablerow>
340            <tablecell>
341               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5324564" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">532</paragraph>
342               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3623462" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">#DIV/0!</paragraph>
343            </tablecell>
344            <tablecell>
345               <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7941831" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">Division by zero</paragraph>
346            </tablecell>
347            <tablecell>
348               <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>
349            </tablecell>
350         </tablerow>
351      </table>
352
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354</helpdocument>