Notwithstanding Biff's answer, you should have used numbers in the formula

=IF(G95="Beef",1,0)

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For a wedding. I have the different meals in seperate columns. I need to
add
the number of Beef dinners and the number of Chicken dinners. I cannot use
a
number conveniently for the "Beef" or the "Chicken". I tried
=IF(G95="Beef","1","0") with the conditional number "1" going into a side
work column and then summed that work column. But apparently the "1" in
the
conditional statement is not a 'number' 1. As soon as I substituted a
number
1 for the conditional 1, the sum worked.