But i manually deleted $'s ...

If you were able to manually delete $s from individual cells, then you
*have* to be working with text values (even after you deleted the $s). You
wouldn't be able to delete a $ in a cell where that was part of a numerical
format (it isn't really a part of the cell contents, it just displays).
Sum() is ignoring your text values. Applying number formatting "over" an
existing text value won't change that value from text to number, regardless
of what format the cell says it has now (a cell can have numerical
formatting but still contain text).

Since you say Gary's Student prior response didn't help, lets try a
different approach.
- Add a new column
- Select the new column and format it as number
- Select a column with "bad" data and copy it
-Select the new column and PasteSpecialValues and then
PasteSpecialFormulas (but *not* cell formats or number formats). Calculate

Better? Delete the "bad" data column (or CopyPaste the New column over Bad)

HTH,
--
George Nicholson

Remove 'Junk' from return address.


"RedHeadedMenace" wrote in
message ...
Kevin -- went thru and did this, but each cell was formatted as currency
or
number (I tried both) previously. But i mauanlly deleted $'s and still
get
same result, and cell formatting shows type of last format (curr or num).

I have never seen anything like this! Not a single suggestion has worked
and it's just mystifying on my end.



"Kevin Lehrbass" wrote:

Hi,

Click on each cell and ensure that the $ is not included in the cell.
When copying and pasting, it looks like the $ was also pasted into the
cells
and excel didn't recognize this as numbers.

When a cell is formatted as currency, the currency symbol isn't actually
added to the cell. I removed the $ symbols and the sum function worked.

Cheers,
--
Kevin Lehrbass
www.spreadsheetsolutions4u.com


"RedHeadedMenace" wrote:

Excel 03
OK, I'm trying to sum numbers a column. This is exact representation,
cells
F19 to F22:

$11,087
$3,400
$2,400
$1,211

I sum into F23 and get the result of only F19 *$11,087.* F23 cell
formula
shows as
=SUM(F19:F22)

This is a sheet I downloaded. I added a row (F21) to insert the $2400.
When first sum action didn't work, I thought maybe it was based on cell
format, so I reformatted to label them currency (this shows in cell
properties), so it's not an issue of cell format standardization.

Also, I copied the numbers from F column to a new one and pasted as
*Special
-- values only* and STILL get only the result of the top #, $11,087.

WTF??? and What can I do????