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Impossible to sum numbers in Excel
I hope someone can help with this because I am pulling my hair out. When I try to sum numbers in a column, at the bottom of the page it gives me a count and not a sum. When I try to Autosum, it g...
Most likely, your "numbers" are actually TEXT. Make sure that they are numbers.
Riny_van_Eekelen Yes... like I said I have selected the cells and marked them as numbers... but that doesn't change anything. Grrr.
Understand! But if you format a text as a NUMBER it will still be a text and the SUM function will not work. Say you have " 10" in A1. This a is a text. Try entering the formula =VALUE(A1) to make the text that looks like a number into a real number. Otherwise, upload you workbook so that I can have a look at it.
- Yessss, thank you bro, it worked fantastically !!!
Went into your sheet and when I select each cell in column C and press enter in the formula bar, the left justified text becomes a number. Also added a formula in column D to demonstrate what I wrote in my previous message.
