Using SUM to total values produced from IF statements

I am producing a questionnaire that calculates a score. Answers to questions add different numbers of points to the score. Part of the questionnaire is Y/N answers, but others have a rating of 1, 2, ...

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Lorenzo
Sep 05, 2017
Cathe
Your C column shows a green triangle on the top left corner of each cell. This probably indicates the values in this column are stored as Text values (vs. Number).

Your IF formula is OK but as it takes the value from column C if the later is a Text value then in returns that Text value and logically SUM ignores it.

Several options: Convert the values in column C to Number values. If you can't change your formula as follow: =IF(E24="y",C24*1,0) =IF(E24="y",--C24,0). This will not change the value in column C but will convert it to a Number value in column F

Lorenzo

Silver Contributor

Sep 05, 2017

Cathe

Your C column shows a green triangle on the top left corner of each cell. This probably indicates the values in this column are stored as Text values (vs. Number).

Your IF formula is OK but as it takes the value from column C if the later is a Text value then in returns that Text value and logically SUM ignores it.

Several options: Convert the values in column C to Number values. If you can't change your formula as follow: =IF(E24="y",C24*1,0) =IF(E24="y",--C24,0). This will not change the value in column C but will convert it to a Number value in column F

Cathe Cleveland

Copper Contributor

Sep 06, 2017

Thank you! That was the answer. I changed Column C to numbers and that fixed it.

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