Excel Err Msg: "Error in Formula" with a Function Macro

ID: Q23834


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SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel, when you are pasting the name of a function macro (using Paste Function on the Formula menu), the error message "Error in Formula" will be returned if the name of the function macro is a reserved name.

Names of built-in Microsoft Excel functions (such as MATCH) cannot be used for the name of a function macro.


REFERENCES

"Microsoft Excel User's Guide 2," version 4.0, page 210

"Microsoft Excel User's Guide," version 3.0, page 571

"Microsoft Excel Functions and Macros," version 2.2, page 119

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Last Reviewed: March 16, 1999