How to FIX SPILL Error in Excel - WHY it's NOT ALWAYS Obvious!

[@LeilaGharani]

Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/spill-error-file

[@mahmoudchamma722]

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[@mahmoudchamma722]

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[@robertflynn7416]

Thanks Leila, yet another very timely video. I started seeing Spill errors this past week while working on a new Excel project, and as if you knew, your video arrived right in time to answer my questions.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful, Robert!

[@Twilson9812]

You have been my go to person for years. Whenever I have a problem I can go to your channel and find the answer

[@mikecanipe9456]

Hi @Leila Gharani, is there a why to keep Excel from trying to Spill, if I don't want or intend it to Spill into adjacent cells. I think this is another Case of Microsoft "trying" to be helpful and innovative but it's just causing unintended issues.

[@kdfox2007]

The best help site of any kind on the internet Leila is a brilliant instructor

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you, Kevin!

[@kamogelomokoena4857]

Hi, what if I have an if statement that is spilling and I don't want it to spill?

[@Bobby-zo6gz]

You're always on top of things Leila. Thanks for sharing.

[@LeilaGharani]

You are so welcome!

[@scotthill836]

Thank you for shedding some light on how to fix the #SPILL error and why it all the sudden became and issue. Very informative!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful, Scott!

[@chh8860]

A Leila Instructional Video ... and a mug of hot black coffee ... the day is off to a good start. Perfect topic ... because I wrestle with this problem ALL the time. At approximately the 1:20 mark you commented " ... but it's not good practice to reference entire columns ... ". But what is the alternative if I need my column to 'refresh' with new data?, i.e. "Refresh All, whether daily, weekly or monthly?. On earlier occasions you've suggested dragging down the fill area ... but that is too limiting and at some point the new data will not be reflected. I have too many tables to be manually extending the fill range every few days and/or weeks. Love your work ... appreciate any suggestions ... thank you ...

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! It was a short video this time. Best practice is to use an Excel Table. This way you don't have to worry about any of your formulas, charts, pivot tables etc because they will automatically be updated as the range expands.

[@chh8860]

@@LeilaGharani Yes, I agree ... but I thought a connected dynamic graph does not automatically update when the table expands unless the data range was previously expanded manually. No? Yes, short video ... but clearly you have been busy ... ;)

[@manusxx]

Hi Leila, great video thank you. I'm struggling at work right now with this error, would be possible to fix it adding automatically as many rows as the result need? Thank you.

[@Excelambda]

Great video!! How I do it, first select the spilled range, and clear formats to reveal whatever lies beneath, then a clear all comes to rescue.😉✌

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for sharing!

[@mickaeldavid1304]

You are helping the planet Leila! I wish you 1 million subs soon

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you!

[@andreasevans]

Hi @Leila Gharani, thank you for another excellent video. Is there a way to "trap" for #SPILL? If we had say IFSPILL function, then we could use ARRAYTOTEXT to convert the many rows returned into just one string and overcome the limitation of using dynamic arrays in tables. In my case, by the way, I am using Filter() to find a list of possible posting matches (Category, Product, Region etc.,) based on previous assignments and sometimes more than one options exists, in which case I get a #SPILL error where what I really want to do is trap for this and then just convert the dynamic array to show something like [ Dog/Pet/UK] [Cat/Pet/US] [Banana/Food/Global]...anyway, thank you again for the fantastic tips and insights.

[@christinepillay6860]

Why is it that whenever I use formula editing a zero appears next to the cell, if I try to type something else in that cell I get the spill error? How do I fix this

[@Galileo2pi]

I knew it because of your bumper courses, as always you're one of the best Leila.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! 😃

[@remars-xcel]

@@LeilaGharani more bumper courses please and thank you

[@sidhaarthsankar1470]

Can excel not automatically push the blocking data downwards ? Is there a way to do it ?

[@eugeneantwi8384]

Very helpful, I solved my missed with 30 seconds into the video.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful.

[@SnackKingOfficial]

Thank you, I was doing a vlookup and I never understood what the #spill was referring too. This helped a lot.

[@BrutallyHonest-]

How am I just hearing about you?! You're great! Very versatile

[@findthetruth3021]

How To Create A Real-Time Sync Between Excel Online & Google Sheets? For instance, We as staff working on Excel online and whenever we add any new records or delete anything from the data, then I need the same reflection of the new records or delete of the data within the google sheet. In a nutshell, I want to transfer the real-time sync data into the google sheet. Many thanks for your amazing videos and I don't skip any of your videos. I wish you can help me in this regard as well. Thanks in advance.

[@adriansosa235]

I used the =SEQUENCE(COUNTA(C:C)-1) and it work fine and I did not start on the top row or the first colum. After having about 10 entries per row it still works fine. then I selected the data and made it into a table and the dynamic numbering all of the cells turn into the error #spill!. I deleted all of the entries in colum C except for the first one then I get a 1 for all of the cells that were giving me befor a #spill! error. then I entered data for one cell after the first cell and I get a #spill! error again for all of the 10 rors again even though their is no data enter into those other cells. I would really appreciate a response from some one on this. thanks by the way your videos have helped me expound my knowledge of excell drastically. thank you for the time you dedicate to your channel.

[@gajabathiarjuntg2390]

Can you please tell me where do you get the subscribe animation when we click the button it is emitting some shapes that's pretty good.

[@ayeoneconsulting]

THIS SOLVED MY PROBLEM IN 2.5 SECONDS.. LOL LOVE YOU LEILA

[@ageloskolaitis7821]

Hi, do you have a video explaining the spill functionality and how to use the "#" in formulas? Thank you!

[@LeilaGharani]

Coming up soon :)

[@suryaraochowdarykoduri]

Thanks for the video. It looks like you cannot reference table columns, for example, =Table1[Start_Date] in a formula within a table. This is returning #Spill error. I've used absolute cell reference and the error disappeared.

[@shoaibtahir575]

Effective and to-the-point. Thanks

[@worcestersorcerer]

Awesome - thank you ! Fixed my issue :)

[@janardantumpal]

Thanks a bunch...I was struggling with it since last one week...thanks

[@myagwinn9454]

You just saved my life??? 1 Min in and my grade is already thanking you

[@LeilaGharani]

👍

[@TheChico]

You're amazing... I've learned so much from your videos and continue learning 👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@LeilaGharani]

Awesome! Thank you, Jose!

[@mariuspretorius2130]

Yip, this error started appearing with Excel 365. Thanks for clearing it up for me!

[@cynthiab.4992]

I got this error when using SUM. I would greatly appreciate a video on how to fix this. Thanks!

[@captvo]

Thanks for the info. Your videos are very systematic.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you. Glad you think so!

[@swagatachakraborty8222]

Thank you for the video. The solutions really helped.

[@ashokec17]

Hi Thanks for the explanation. it helps me to figure out - how to remove spill error in my excel sheet. i was using the roundup function to get SUM of some numbers in another tab. i found the problem with tab name, which has a space between its two-letters in my case - the tab name was "Thinking Space" changed to "ThinkingSpace" - All is well!!

[@vijayarjunwadkar]

Nice video explaining #spill. Especially liked the "not so obvious" reasons, otherwise hard to find and fix! Keep "spilling" more secrets about Office tools! We want them! 😊👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you Vijay. Always a pleasure to read your comments 😊

[@vijayarjunwadkar]

@@LeilaGharani Thank you Leila, my pleasure too!

Hi Leila, I have a question about #spill error. I’m taking error when I using index or unique or filter formulas in the table. Where do I fail? Can’t we use that formulas in the table?

[@SylvainDenepoux]

Thank you so much for this video. Do you know how to not display 0 with the new spilling function ?

[@jcavazos8]

Great video. Thanks

[@shakthiatukorala595]

A short tutorial.. but new thing has to learn..Thanks a lot.

[@LeilaGharani]

You are most welcome

[@AccountingandQuickbooks]

Thanks for sharing such practical tips 👍

[@LeilaGharani]

My pleasure 😊

[@Twilson9812]

Thank you so much for all your help

[@christoslefkimiotis9889]

Good video, this spill is very confusing, or excel to automatically fills in cells. I am an experienced user I see no benefit not to say that it prevents me from complex formula building. Has is replaced !Ref? Thanks

[@rikkikirr8538]

hiii leila thanks for your tip on the cell format, my situation was a little different as the contents of a cell , in this case a name , filled 2 adjacent cells but truncated the name after the 1st cell, but checking the cell format was ""custom"" even though i had not set the format, but i changed to general and le voila fixed !! thanks for your tip 👋👋👋👋👋 - rick

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@SrenNielsenMadklub]

Thank you for the best Excel videos ever... Is there a way to combine two filter results to one? If I want to filter two collums, and get the result in one collum

[@gurneetkaur1498]

Hi Leila! Am trying to convert data pulled using FILTER function into an Excel Table but am getting SPILL error. How can I fix it? Basically am copying the contents of one sheet into the second sheet using Filter.

[@kvlpnd]

Now, I have a lot of evil ideas for my colleagues... 😂😂 Just kidding. Thnx for the video.

[@LeilaGharani]

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[@shubhamdogra5386]

hello @Leila Gharani, how i Auto insert a blank row when spill error occur due to Blockage. I do not want to manually add couple of rows, instead of that i want rows Automatically add or remove depend on how much rows should be needed to spill the data.

[@orlando030784]

thank you, very informative. do you have a video or can you make a tutorial on how to have calculated date in Microsoft Word. been looking for videos but cant find any. I believe you might have answer to this one. lets says todays date is Jan 14, but in the word document you want to use Jan 20 and then add an auto calculate date which add Jan 20 + 14days. hope you can help with this question.

[@sachinrv1]

Nice video Leila. By the way, Excel 365 Team can develop some function in line with IFERROR or ISERROR and make such function an inbuilt part any function or integrated function(s) dealing with spilled array. Or there should be a pop up error massage asking user's permission to spill the result of #spilled.

[@LeilaGharani]

That would be a nice development :)

[@zasasule1]

This is great!. Can you create a video on how to do bank reconcilation on excell please.

[@pvsraaaa865]

I have multiple tables added to the data model. Is it possible to add a spillover list to that? whenever i convert a unique list to a table i face spill error

[@moreme40]

Had this same error just the other day when did the XLookup incorrectly

[@carlosborba3453]

Did you get this error in a table or single range? I got Spill Error in tables.

[@moreme40]

It was in a range. I was trying to use a range in the first argument of an XLookup instead of a single cell. Once I fixed that I was golden

[@carlosborba3453]

@@moreme40 i just read. Xlookup, sort, unique do not work in table...😪

[@davet7147]

Hi Leila, great videos on excel - my go to. I now get "Calculating (Spill Resize Pass 1): x%" errors, where excel mentions it is " Calculating ( x threads ) x% ". Sometimes, I see pass 2 or 3. How do I find these. Thanks Dave.

[@Ticky66MN]

Protected cells in a form is another example I've run across.

[@sanjayaais8495]

Thanks Leila for the great stuff! small question .... am trying sort the result from spill formula and getting a message "cant change part of array". How do I get over this?

[@venkatiyer7459]

Thanks Mam... As told earlier I am using Excel 2019 ... useful sharing ...

[@moneybox5733]

Leila, Thank you for your very clear and informative videos. Help Please with Office 365. I have start and end times setup in columns D & E, my formula is meant to give me a result in column F showing the time spent. For some reason the data in F is spilling into G and displaying there as well as in F. My formula: =if(isblank(d3:e3),"",(e3-d3)*24) Phil

[@robertthompson7334]

On that last issue (invisible text), another way to find the next cell that has a value (or formula) is to press CTRL + Down Arrow. This can be quicker if that cell happens to be 100 rows down, for example.

[@eyramsk1008]

Thanks for saving us. I've been trying vlookup function on a project but I receive errors(#N/A and #VALUE!). I've tried all I could to fix it but to no avail (ie. i tried NumberValue, Trim, multiplied the referenced value by 1 in the formula, converted text/labels to number and even compared the look up values to check for empty spaces). Kindly help out

[@PhilKnall]

Thanks Leila. I've been running into this error multiple times these few days, as i always used columns for my vlookups... Is there a way to exclude the spill behavior from a formula so i don't have to manually specify the lookup area?

[@SalvatorePalombizio]

Great tips Leila!

[@andrewmoss6449]

Useful advice!

[@abubakarmohamed2795]

Thanks a thousand Leila.

[@rocionavas9402]

what if you are using a lookup type of formula? I often get this error, using match formula from one worksheet into another. Also when there's a merged cell.

[@ChorltonPete]

hi I've written the following formula =SUM(I10:I16)-(H10:H16)+J9 to return its value in j16 which it does , however it also returns the value in j17 though j20 I assume this is the spill? however I don't want this. how can I stop it or am iI using the wrong formula thanks in advance Pete

[@DougHExcel]

Thanks for spilling the beans on the naughty #SPILL error message 😉

[@LeilaGharani]

😊

[@RobWalker1]

Great - thanks very much!

[@pierreblanchard9752]

A space in the range of copy is difficult to see. It will also produce the error #spill. Good tutorial.

[@bjarnesnopestad2165]

Thank you for sharing

[@michaeljohntahadlangit2197]

How to automatically just move the blockage below the spill range? I do not want to delete it because I need it. Thanks.

[@dustinvandewater7022]

How do i average a set of data using 2 arguments, I.E. averaging only the cases ran on a specific line, but only between x times? ive been trying to figure this out for some time now and just cant get it, I'm on 365 version. And ty for all the help you have provided.

[@felipelandim2881]

Cool. And super professional video edit.

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks, Felipe!

[@tranquility2793]

brilliant video however this video hasnt solved it, i was wondering if i could share my screen with you and kindly you could advise. i havent found anyone that could help me but have been using your videos and feel like you can sort this? if you can please let me know.

[@carlosborba3453]

I got a Spill Error when i am using a Xlookup function in a table. Is it commom, is there any solution? Thank you

[@manideepak6820]

Happy sankranti mam

[@khurramilyas9532]

Hi I have some other problem regarding #spill error when add a unique formula referencing from a table it work fine but when I convert the range of cell that contain unique formula #spill error shows and when I convert table to range its works fine. any solution for this I am using 2 formulas for my data and I want to make it dynamic Unique and SUMIF formula. I also commented on some other videos of yours but you did not reply to my comment. hope you reply this one. Thanks

[@jtmh31]

Why are you not able to use spill functions in a table? I've watched your Excel # video, which is very helpful; however, you would think spill functions would be beneficial in an official table. Thanks!

[@lupitamendoza4625]

Muchas gracias!! No tenía nada de texto, solo seleccione el recuadro azul y di Supr

[@findsmilehere2667]

It helped. Many thanks

[@richardhay645]

Highlight the spill range or highlight the entire column if has no useful content and type Alt,E,,A A and press Enter. That removes everything and normally solves the spill error problem.

[@mattschoular8844]

Thanks for sharing Leila.

[@LeilaGharani]

My pleasure 😊

[@sosoomar591]

Dear Leila I use excel sheet daily to report my lab results and I don't use tables and at the end of month I need to collect average of all the results during month.this is very hard and time consuming to manually collecting data and calculate average. How can excel help in that

[@mdmueenpasha1637]

Format cells option was crazy.. fan from beginning

[@nsavernon]

THANK YOU!

[@wessamh1975]

Amazing We need some video about access if it can be

[@myimaanofficial]

Hi all, I have a situation where I need to lookup a range in a table on a spill reference, and that range needs to be dynamic. I can take the below formula to get my range to do my lookup against: =XLOOKUP(A1,$A$6:$A$7,$B$6:$K$7) And by itself this spills to the right and pulls back the correct range to do my lookup against, which I can nest within another xlookup. As soon as I change the reference to spill: =XLOOKUP(A1#,$A$6:$A$7,$B$6:$K$7) I can see the result I want by hitting F9 but when I let the calculation play out it results in the first value of the array only. Is there a workaround so that I can get this formula to spill vertically along with A1 whilst returning the array? Otherwise I'm thinking I'll likely have to preemptively drag this formula down?

[@SemihCT]

Could you please make a video for searchable drop down list for Excel 2019?

[@LeilaGharani]

There really isn't a good solution. They're all complex and difficult to handle.

[@mohammedhassan2808]

Thank you for the tips to find out #spill Error

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure :)

[@vishalnaik1867]

I am still facing an issue when applying filters, when I apply filter & want to do VLOOKUP only on filtered data, its giving me this error due to inbetween cells has another data, it worked before spill was introduced, now this spill is creating problem for me. Is there any solution on this?

[@MrPrasadkumar]

Thanks this helped me

[@ArcOfTheCovenant]

I'm getting a spill error when I use the filter function to search and make them appear in a new table. I can't figure it out!

[@luqmanhakim6613]

I have the same problem but the thing is there is no blockage at all. I named the whole column and then I typed =(name of data). And press enter. But it shows spill. Can someone explain pls

[@mic8849]

Very clear video, but for whatever reason, it didn't solve my problem. It only fixed with me when i changed the formula from =SUM(H1:H14) to H1+H2+H3 .... +H14. That's when the spill error went away.

[@jamesrobertsalud1443]

Thanks you very much

[@lindameredith1941]

I got my first spill error today! I'd never seen it before.

[@Sameer-it2qu]

How to solve this in table. I have used filter and now I want to use that data in table but I can't because I get spill error.

[@jonatandehnisch202]

How to get rid of SPILL function completly?

[@NewbieInForeignLand]

Thanks a lot for this video. This error irritates me a lot

[@LeilaGharani]

You're welcome!

[@iansly6633]

I had a similar spill issue which wasn't covered here, with previously merged/centred cells on sheet 1, while trying to copying that data to previously merged/centred cells in sheet 2. Sheet 1 with entered data to copy to the second sheet were cells D9:O9, merged/centred Sheet 2 cells to accept the data were D4:O4, merged/centred Issue: the #spill error occurred even though the cells were all the same amount of columns, just different rows, which were all merged/centred. I think the problem was I had merged and centred b e f o r e entering data into the cells. Once the data was entered just one cell and T H E N merged/centred, it behaved the way I wanted it. Hope this make sense. I sometimes struggle with Excel and formulae syntax.