×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Excel 2003 freezes when adding trendline?

Excel 2003 freezes when adding trendline?

Excel 2003 freezes when adding trendline?

(OP)
Anyone had experience with this issue?  I thought it might've been a network issue the first time but it's now done it twice.  When I add a linear trendline to a chart then click OKAY, Excel freezes up and won't let me do anything.  Task Manager says Excel is "running", not "not responding" and under Processes it is not using a measurable portion of the processing power.

Brian Bobyk - Hoerbiger Canada

RE: Excel 2003 freezes when adding trendline?

I've had problems with Excel due to corruption of a cell. I couldn't see what was wrong, but the corrupted cell caused multitude of problems.

I'd copy the data  and chart into another spreadsheet and see if it works.

RE: Excel 2003 freezes when adding trendline?

Maybe just too much data and it's still calculating? Have a cup of coffee while it does the number crunching and then pull the plug if it's still not working.

corus

RE: Excel 2003 freezes when adding trendline?

(OP)
I only had 15 datapoints that were entered values, not from formulas, so I don't think its a processing issue.  

Sometimes it works fine and other times it locks up so, it could be a corrupt cell or something.  I can't remember which workbook I was working on last time it locked up.

My computer's also got Dell's hard disk communication issue that causes the blue screen of death so the Excel problem may be related to that as well.

Brian Bobyk - Hoerbiger Canada

RE: Excel 2003 freezes when adding trendline?

I use trendlines all the time and never had a problem.  It could be related to your hard drive issue (retry, retry, retry...).  You might want to reinstall Excel on another part of your hard drive.  

Back up often!  

John D

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources