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Strange SUM-Problem
Hello, Excel specialists, I have a strange problem: =S2+23 delivers 20 correctly, however =SUMME(S2:S3) delivers 0.00?? The cells are set to be numbers. What could be wrong??
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- I could resolve the problem. As Detlef Lewin and Sergei Baklan have suggested, it was a text problem. The Excel-formatting-field did not do the converting sufficiently, it was necessary to convert the cells with the data/"Text in Data" command. Thanks for the prompt answers.
In addition,
If you enter ="1"+"2" result will be 3. Excel auto-convert texts to numbers in such operations.
If =SUM("1","2") result will be 0. SUM() ignores all texts.
- Hi
Check S2 and S3 with ISNUMBER(). If the result is FALSE then it is text - no matter what the format is.
