Randomly getting "DataFormat.Error: Ogiltigt cellvärde: #VALUE!." on files with same template.

[TommyMossberg]

Hi

I have a bunch of Excel-files made with the same template. I use the following formula in cell H8:

=SEQUENCE(1, XLOOKUP(EXTRACT(CELL("filename", A1), FIND("]", CELL("filename", A1), 1)+1, 255), Months[Month], Months[Sequence]), XLOOKUP(EXTRACT(CELL("filename", A1), FIND("]", CELL("filename", A1), 1)+1, 255), Months[Month], Months[Start]), 1)

In short it finds the name of the sheet and translate it into a Date. Then the sequence populates a calendar in the format YYYY-MM-DD where the length depends on what month it is.
This works perfectley fine but when I try to combine each sheet from multiple files in Power Query I get a random Error (DataFormat.Error: Ogiltigt cellvärde: #VALUE!.) in cell H8 and null in cell I8, J8 (and so on) instead of the numeric value of the date created with the formula above. This applies to about 1/10 of the files. 9/10 works perfectly fine!

 

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The files are from the same template and I can't figure out why this is happening. 

Anyone has any suggestions of where to start?

[Anonymous]

Hi @TommyMossberg ,

This is usually an error caused by a mismatch in data type.

Please see if these help.

How to correct a #VALUE! error

Error handling - Power Query

Best Regards,
Gao
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