It appears that your data is still text, even tho you've tired to re-format
it..........this is a difficulty much experienced with imported
data............even when you do =H34, you're probably still getting a TEXT
value.

Try using Data TextToColumns delimited use NO delimiter (uncheck
everything) and choose {NONE} as the text qualifier..........hopefully this
will convert your TEXT numbers back to number-numbers.........

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3


"CK" wrote in message
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I was trying to figure out why my phone bill tripled this month so I
copied
and pasted the list of my alleged calls int an excel spreadsheet. when I
tried to sum the column with the per call charges in it it is always zero.

ie. in cell h235 I enter "=sum(h4:h234)" without quotes. The result is
always zero. It doesn't matter whether I keep the source formatting or
match
destination formatting or change the formatting to number under "format
cells." None of the paste special options are useful either. Also if I
set
the formula to say "=h34" it will correctly show the value from that cell.
I'm at a loss.