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Gary Mac Taggart
May 06, 2018Copper Contributor
Formula error & calc problem
Finally found somewhere I can turn to for help – I'm disabled and stuck at home so have no one to ask help from, only the dog and he's not very good with Excel. in example 1 below trying to total a ...
- May 07, 2018Excel does not recognize your numbers as being numbers. Also, it looks like your regional settings are off. Perhaps best to do this:
- Close Excel
- Open control panel, Language and region
- Switch to any country other than yours
- OK your way out
- Open control panel, Language and region again
- Select your own country.
JKPieterse
May 07, 2018Silver Contributor
Excel does not recognize your numbers as being numbers. Also, it looks like your regional settings are off. Perhaps best to do this:
- Close Excel
- Open control panel, Language and region
- Switch to any country other than yours
- OK your way out
- Open control panel, Language and region again
- Select your own country.
- Close Excel
- Open control panel, Language and region
- Switch to any country other than yours
- OK your way out
- Open control panel, Language and region again
- Select your own country.
- Gary Mac TaggartMay 07, 2018Copper Contributor
JKPieterse wrote:
Excel does not recognize your numbers as being numbers. Also, it looks like your regional settings are off. Perhaps best to do this:
- Close Excel
- Open control panel, Language and region
- Switch to any country other than yours
- OK your way out
- Open control panel, Language and region again
- Select your own country.I set any countries setting to another country
did a reboot
set all country settings back to UK
did a reboot
Don't know if I followed your instructions correctly but it seems to have done the trick, thank you very much.
- JKPieterseMay 07, 2018Silver ContributorOutstanding!
- Gary Mac TaggartMay 07, 2018Copper ContributorCan't thank you enough! Been going round in circles with this for months.