Formula Audit mode active in one column only; cannot kill.

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This is unbelievable. I've been using Excel for decades and this is a
first.

I'm using Excel 2002 SP3. My workbook, about 2 MB in size, has
several worksheets. The workbook has gotten corrupted in an extremely
unusual way.

If I invoke a particular UDF in the third column of any sheet in the
book, Excel refuses to evaluate it and keeps the cell in Formula Audit
mode.

You heard me right. If I enter "=MyFunc1(<params>)" in any cell in
column 3 of any sheet in the book, Excel displays the formula, not the
result.

But if I invoke any -other- UDF, e.g. "=MyFunc2(...)", in column 3 of
any sheet, Excel displays the result fine.

Conversely, if I enter "=MyFunc1(...)" in any -but- column 3 of any
sheet, likewise the result is fine.

Furthermore, any cell dependent on any such corrupted column-3 cell--
at any location in the workbook--is corrupted.

If I insert a new sheet in the workbook, column 3 of that sheet is
corrupted.

Toggling global audit mode on/off fails to clear it.

Killing Excel with the Task Manager and restarting fails to clear it.
The condition seems to be stored in the workbook file. (If I File
Close the workbook, leaving Excel with a gray sheetless screen, then
create a new workbook, the condition is finally gone. (Of course, the
brand new sheet has no reference to, or code for, UDF MyFunc1.)

I see no reference whatsoever in Excel of a capability to toggle audit
mode on/off for anything other than globally. The cell context menu
(Shift-F10) certainly has no audit option.

Is my workbook corrupted, or is this a known feature? If the latter,
how do you turn it off?

Thanks very much.
 
[email protected] said:
This is unbelievable. I've been using Excel for decades and this is a
first.

I'm using Excel 2002 SP3. My workbook, about 2 MB in size, has
several worksheets. The workbook has gotten corrupted in an extremely
unusual way.

If I invoke a particular UDF in the third column of any sheet in the
book, Excel refuses to evaluate it and keeps the cell in Formula Audit
mode.

You heard me right. If I enter "=MyFunc1(<params>)" in any cell in
column 3 of any sheet in the book, Excel displays the formula, not the
result.

But if I invoke any -other- UDF, e.g. "=MyFunc2(...)", in column 3 of
any sheet, Excel displays the result fine.

Conversely, if I enter "=MyFunc1(...)" in any -but- column 3 of any
sheet, likewise the result is fine.

Furthermore, any cell dependent on any such corrupted column-3 cell--
at any location in the workbook--is corrupted.

If I insert a new sheet in the workbook, column 3 of that sheet is
corrupted.

Toggling global audit mode on/off fails to clear it.

Killing Excel with the Task Manager and restarting fails to clear it.
The condition seems to be stored in the workbook file. (If I File
Close the workbook, leaving Excel with a gray sheetless screen, then
create a new workbook, the condition is finally gone. (Of course, the
brand new sheet has no reference to, or code for, UDF MyFunc1.)

I see no reference whatsoever in Excel of a capability to toggle audit
mode on/off for anything other than globally. The cell context menu
(Shift-F10) certainly has no audit option.

Is my workbook corrupted, or is this a known feature? If the latter,
how do you turn it off?

Thanks very much.
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<USER ERROR!> <TILT!> <DUMMKOPF!> <IDIOT SAVANT!> <OF WHICH ONLY
THE FIRST WORD IS TRUE!>

Ignore my message.

My UDF MyFunc1 was written years ago. It never dawned on me to look
at the code. And here is what it says, of course:

With Selection
If .Column = 3 then
MyFunc1 = .Formula
End If
End With

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