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Unexpected return of #N/A for excel fields collected by form response

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I have a flow which checks every few minutes for new rows on a form which collects form results and also has a few columns of calculated content.

The flow runs well except that for any form submissions in the last couple of hours (it seems), my flow returns calculated cells as #N/A, even though when I open the excel sheet the data is there.

Any ideas why this may be and/or a good workaround?

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  • trice602 Profile Picture
    16,548 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi @AdamPorter ,

     

    When you say the data is there, is the error also in excel as #N/A too?

     

    If so, without seeing anything here, the issue most likely is a string value.  As an example, if you have a form response that has an answer of 10, it gets passed from the form response as a string "10", not the numeric value 10.  If I'm on the right track here, you can wrap your form responses before writing to excel as int(dyanmic_form_response1).

     

     

  • AdamPorter Profile Picture
    44 on at

    No the data in excel is correct.

     

    The issue applies to two types of calculation.

    - A VLOOKUP returning an email address

    - a TEXTBEFORE extracting a text string

     

    In both cases they are present and correct in excel but fail when the flow runs, returning #N/A

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