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wmcfall
Jan 31, 2023Copper Contributor
Formulas and Functions
I copied values from an imported spreadsheet onto another to work the data. When I tried to auto sum the values the total is 0.0 but the formula shows up in the header bar. It does this even after ...
wmcfall
Feb 01, 2023Copper Contributor
Thank you for pointing that out. I followed your instructions, but I still end up with an auto sum of zero???
Patrick2788
Feb 01, 2023Silver Contributor
If Text to Columns isn't able to re-evaluate Column C as a number, you may have something else in that column that's causing Excel to see it as text. It may help if you're able to share an anonymized sample workbook with a few of those values from Column C.
- wmcfallFeb 01, 2023Copper Contributor
Happy to share Patrick.....thanks
You can view "Book1.xlsx" at: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:0d08d8bb-8adc-4f77-b737-9c726eb40e34Patrick2788
- Patrick2788Feb 01, 2023Silver ContributorIt looks like your numbers have ANSI character 160 in front of them. At the sheet level this character appears as a space. To resolve, go into any cell with a number and select the character that precedes the number. Go into find and replace. In the find box, paste in the copied character. Leave Replace blank and select replace all.