Title: Random #NAME? errors
Last modified: September 26, 2017

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# Random #NAME? errors

 *  Resolved [Scott Severance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mssever/)
 * (@mssever)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-name-errors/)
 * I’m using this plugin to display the latest financial update for my church. The
   source spreadsheet contains the report data on the first sheet, which is calculated
   from data on other sheets. Most cells in the report sheet make use of custom 
   functions to calculate their values.
 * On my main development machine, everything displays as expected on my WordPress
   site. When I viewed the site from another machine, however, every calculated 
   value which uses a custom function displayed `#NAME?`. Upon loading the Google
   spreadsheet from the machine in question, everything started displaying as expected,
   without me making any changes to the Google sheet. This is weird, because I presume
   the plugin makes a server-side request to Google, and thus is not affected by
   the browser. Yet what other explanation is there?
 * Now, I’m on another machine. For testing, I will not be opening the Google sheet
   on this machine. I keep getting the same `#NAME?` errors as before. No tweaks
   I’ve made to the WordPress site have changed anything. Changing the cache settings
   has no effect.
 * However, the site has always worked just fine from my phone. Plus, I got an email
   from a site user who clearly was able to read the data without `#NAME?` errors.
 * Why are these errors coming up sometimes?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Frandom-name-errors%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-name-errors/#post-9532654)
 * That sounds like a Google Spreadsheet product support question.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-charts-question-try-the-google-product-support-forum-before-posting-here/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-charts-question-try-the-google-product-support-forum-before-posting-here/)
 *  Thread Starter [Scott Severance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mssever/)
 * (@mssever)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-name-errors/#post-9540806)
 * Thanks. It turns out that it was an issue with the Google Spreadsheet.
 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-name-errors/#post-9540871)
 * Cool, I’m glad you found the answer you needed.

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