Having some Excel issues

Working on a pretty big model and this is the first time I've come across this problem, I'm sure it's common but I can't figure it out.

Basically when I'm carrying over a formula, or even keying in the formula, say just a sum(), the value showing is just 0, when it should be something else. If I carry over a formula the value is just the same as the value where I carried the original formula over from. I'm not on manual calculate, and it doesn't happen everywhere just some select cells. I know it's probably with the formatting but I can't figure it out.

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bad circular reference?

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Hit F9. If you have your calculations set to manual, have to hit F9 to re-calculate circular models.

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Think he heard you the first time. :p

If it's not iterations it's a circular reference - usually you cap iterations @ 100, at least from what I've learned.

Calm down.
 

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