Hi Frank,

Yes, your suggestion works. This still leaves me perplexed on two issues:
1. None of the cells are formatted as text. b1 is currency, b6 is
percentage. How come Excel is reading them as text?
2. How come the equation works in some copies of the worksheet but not all?

Thanks,
Scott

"Frank Kabel" wrote:

Hi
does the following work:
=sumproduct(--b1:b5,--b6:b10)
If yes, then your values are stored as text

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Regards
Frank Kabel
Frankfurt, Germany

"Scott Summerlin" <Scott schrieb
im Newsbeitrag
...
In cell a1, I have the following sumproduct equation,
=sumproduct(b1:b5,b6:b10). The data in b1:b5 is formatted as
currency. The
data in b6:b10 is percentages; the percentage values come from a link
to
another worksheet.

The sumproduct functions works fine on the original worksheet.
However, I
made 10 copies of original. For 4 of them, the sumproduct function
does not
work. Cells b1:b5 have numbers greater than zero. The percentages
in b6:b10
are 100%. Therefore, cell a1 should have a number greater than zero.
Yet,
cell a1 shows only zero.

If I eliminate the links for the percentages in cells b6:b10 and
instead
manually input the percentages, the sumproduct equation in cell a1
returns
the proper value.

I have two mysteries to solve:
1. How come the sumproduct equation works on some of the copied
worksheets
but not all?
2. How come the sumproduct equation works if I convert the
percentages from
linked data to manually inputted data?

Thanks,
Scott