I have a personal vendetta against it (unary), and hate it with a passion,
really because *I* screwed up royally in revising an entire project over to
using it, in place of the asterisk.
So, while admiring you're handling of this issue, I just couldn't bare to
let the opportunity pass to eliminate it from any possibility of being used,
no matter in how small the occasion might be.<bg
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Hi RD,

No of course you are correct, there is nothing to coerce so no need.

habit I guess :-(.

Bob


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Bob,
Is there really a need for the unary in your formulas?<g
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Hi Ben,

Try this

=SUM(D1:D10)-SUMPRODUCT(--(LARGE(D1:D10,{1;2}))+(SMALL(D1:D10,{1;2})))

or if there will be 10 then you could use

=SUMPRODUCT(--(LARGE(D1:D10,ROW(INDIRECT("3:8")))))

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Hello,

I have a list of ten values. I would like to sum this list with the
top 2 and bottom 2 values removed in the sum calculation.

Any help would be great,

ben


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