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Default Problems with SUMIF function and Wildcards (* and ?)


Hey

I have a hard time getting this to work.

I wanted to make a sum of different accounts taking only the 2 first
account numbers. Using a formula like this one.

SUMIF(A8:A179;"14*";G8:G179), For all the accounts in the range
beginning with 14.

But in stead of looking for the * as a wildcard it actually looks for
14* (and I didnt type ~*); thus naturally giving me a sum of 0.

The strange thing is that on another file I received from a colleague
it works perfectly on the collumns he created, but not on the new
columns I created in his file.

I have tried copying his formating but it didnt change anything.


I am currently using Windows 2003, in english on a french computer.


Thanks in advance


Joachim


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