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Hi experts,
I'm getting this strange error in Excel Power Pivot:
Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.
Now if I look at the columns that have this error, the formula is simple:
IFERROR([NTK], 0)
However in my case [NTK] column is all empty, and when I check the imported data all columns have "General" type but only NTK has this problem. Other columns have empty cells too so I don't think that's the problem.
I really have no idea what to do about this weird thing, but alas I cannot upload my Excel file, and a dummy file probably won't work out.
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi @markus_zhang,
This error prompts when there existing two different data types in formula. In your scenario, you used both number value (zero 0 ) and text value ( [NTK] ) in single column.
You can replace the 0 with BLANK() or "" to avoid such an error.
Best regards,
Yuliana Gu
Hi @markus_zhang,
This error prompts when there existing two different data types in formula. In your scenario, you used both number value (zero 0 ) and text value ( [NTK] ) in single column.
You can replace the 0 with BLANK() or "" to avoid such an error.
Best regards,
Yuliana Gu
Hi I figured it out,
=[NTK] works but =IFERROR([NTK], 0) doesn't work, weird...
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