Excel 2013 Trace Precedents On Another Sheet

Details: To execute Trace Dependents selection must point to a cell or range having formula. Select the cell for which you want to identify the dependent cells. To display a tracer arrow to each cell that is dependent on the active cell, on the Formulas tab, in the Formula Auditing group, click Trace Dependents.
These two buttons allow you to trace (and turn off trace) precedents in a formula. A precedent cell is one that is referred to by a formula in another cell. B9 through F9 are precedents, because they are referred to in the formula in cell G9. As you can see, the trace precedents button shows you the relationship between the cells.
Show All Precedents. Excel natively traces precedents only for the active cell in a selection of multiple cells. In other words, Excel only shows you trace arrows for one cell at a time. Macabacus, on the other hand, shows precedent trace arrows for all selected cells at once.

How to trace precedents or dependents for a range of / multiple cells in Excel?

In Excel, we can trace the precedents or dependents of cells with the build-in feature in Excel by clicking cells one by one. But, if there are hundreds of cells that you want to trace the precedents or dependents at the same time, how could you deal with this task quickly and easily in Excel?

Trace precedents or dependents for a range of cells with Kutools for Excel

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Use Trace Precedents Choose a formula and click Trace Precedents. It is on the Formulas ribbon in Excel 2007 and the Tools - Formula Auditing menu in Excel 97-2003. Excel will draw blue arrows to show all the cells that flow into this cell. The icon in the lower left means there were some off-sheet precedents.

To trace precedents for multiple cells, the following steps can help you:

1. Enter equal sign = into a blank cell, and then click top left corner of the worksheet to select the whole sheet, see screenshot:

2. Then press Enter key, and a warning message will pop out, see screenshot:

3. And click OK button to close it, and a 0 is displayed into the cell, select it, then click Formulas and click Trace Precedents twice, all the precedents of the corresponding cells have been traced at once, see screenshot:

4. At last, you can delete the helper formula as you need.

To trace the dependents for multiple cells, the following VBA code can help you, please do as follows:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: Trace dependents for a range of cells:

How To Trace Dependents Excel

3. Then press F5 key to run this code, and a prompt box will pop out to remind you select the range that you want to use, see screenshot:

4. And then click OK button, all the dependent cells are traced at once, see screenshot:

To be painful with above methods, here, I will introduce a handy tool-Kutools for Excel, with its Monitor Precedents of Ranges andMonitor Dependents of Ranges utilities, you can solve this task quickly and easily.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as follows:

1. Select the data range that you want to trace the precedents or dependents.

2. Then click Kutools > More > Monitor Precedents of Ranges / Monitor Dependents of Ranges, see screenshot:

3. Tracing the precedent cells, selectMonitor Precedents of Ranges to get the following result:

Tracing the dependent cells, please select Monitor Dependents of Ranges to get the following result:

Notes:

1. This feature is dynamic, it will be changed as your selection.

2. You can also apply this feature by clicking Kutools Plus > Worksheet Design, under the Design tab, click MonitorPrecedents and Dependents.

3. You just need to click the utility again to disable the tracing.

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I've found this macro very useful, thank you. I do have one rather large issue - the macro will cause excel to stop responding and I have to close out and restart the program each time I run it. Any fixes/recommendations? Thank you!
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When running the macro version, it causes excel to stop responding. I then have to restart excel. Has anyone else encountered this and have a fix? This is a very helpful macro, thank you. Hoping I can resolve this issue.
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Thank you very much!