diff --git a/formula/inc/core_resource.hrc b/formula/inc/core_resource.hrc
index 43fea5c6fc04..855ce20ecaa1 100644
--- a/formula/inc/core_resource.hrc
+++ b/formula/inc/core_resource.hrc
@@ -989,7 +989,6 @@ const std::pair<const char *, int> RID_STRLIST_FUNCTION_NAMES_ENGLISH_OOXML[] =
     { "_xlfn.ORG.LIBREOFFICE.RAND.NV" , ocRandomNV },
     { "_xlfn.ORG.LIBREOFFICE.RANDBETWEEN.NV" , ocRandbetweenNV },
     { "_xlfn.RANDARRAY" , ocRandArray },
-    { "#REF!", ocStop },
     { "_xludf.", ocUDExternal },
     { nullptr,  -1 }
 };
diff --git a/formula/source/core/api/FormulaCompiler.cxx b/formula/source/core/api/FormulaCompiler.cxx
index 6b2f81024f3f..c7e8633c65ec 100644
--- a/formula/source/core/api/FormulaCompiler.cxx
+++ b/formula/source/core/api/FormulaCompiler.cxx
@@ -2891,14 +2891,14 @@ bool FormulaCompiler::AppendTokenOrError(OUStringBuffer& rBuffer, const FormulaT
             // A call with no name would come out as "#NAME!()", which no reader
             // accepts, so the error string replaces the whole formula.
             rBuffer.setLength(0);
-            rBuffer.append(GetNativeSymbol(ocErrRef));
+            rBuffer.append(mxSymbols->getSymbol(ocErrRef));
             return false;
         }
         if (eOp == ocExternal || eOp == ocPush)
         {
             // A function token that lost its name. The error string stands in for
             // this one token only.
-            rBuffer.append(GetNativeSymbol(ocErrRef));
+            rBuffer.append(mxSymbols->getSymbol(ocErrRef));
             rpToken = maArrIterator.Next();
             return true;
         }
@@ -2913,7 +2913,7 @@ bool FormulaCompiler::AppendTokenOrError(OUStringBuffer& rBuffer, const FormulaT
             // The error would come out as "#NAME?$C7", which no reader accepts,
             // so the error string replaces the whole formula.
             rBuffer.setLength(0);
-            rBuffer.append(GetNativeSymbol(ocErrName));
+            rBuffer.append(mxSymbols->getSymbol(ocErrName));
             return false;
         }
     }
diff --git a/sc/qa/unit/ucalc_formula2.cxx b/sc/qa/unit/ucalc_formula2.cxx
index 7362a2f13f60..e4fd75af0314 100644
--- a/sc/qa/unit/ucalc_formula2.cxx
+++ b/sc/qa/unit/ucalc_formula2.cxx
@@ -7416,6 +7416,26 @@ CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(TestFormula2, testAUnionListPartJoinsWhenItBeginsWithARefer
                        formula::FormulaGrammar::GRAM_OOXML);
     CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(300.0, m_pDoc->GetValue(ScAddress(3, 13, 0)));
 
+    // An error constant part becomes the result of the union, wherever the blank around the
+    // separator is.
+    m_pDoc->SetFormula(ScAddress(3, 14, 0), u"=(A1, #REF!)"_ustr,
+                       formula::FormulaGrammar::GRAM_OOXML);
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(FormulaError::NoRef, m_pDoc->GetErrCode(ScAddress(3, 14, 0)));
+    m_pDoc->SetFormula(ScAddress(3, 16, 0), u"=(A1 ,#REF!)"_ustr,
+                       formula::FormulaGrammar::GRAM_OOXML);
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(FormulaError::NoRef, m_pDoc->GetErrCode(ScAddress(3, 16, 0)));
+
+    // The same list read the way it arrives from a file: no leading equals sign, and the
+    // implicit intersections worked out during the parse.
+    {
+        ScCompiler aCompiler(*m_pDoc, ScAddress(3, 17, 0), formula::FormulaGrammar::GRAM_OOXML,
+                             true, false);
+        std::unique_ptr<ScTokenArray> pArray = aCompiler.CompileString(u"(A1 ,#REF!)"_ustr);
+        aCompiler.CompileTokenArray();
+        m_pDoc->SetFormula(ScAddress(3, 17, 0), *pArray);
+        CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(FormulaError::NoRef, m_pDoc->GetErrCode(ScAddress(3, 17, 0)));
+    }
+
     // An @ part sits on the reference after it, and a bare list has no value anyway.
     m_pDoc->SetFormula(ScAddress(3, 15, 0), u"=(A1, _xlfn.SINGLE(B1))"_ustr,
                        formula::FormulaGrammar::GRAM_OOXML);