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Good points!

Use this in A2 and copy down (still array entered)

=IF(A2<=0,0,MAX(0,SUM(INDEX($A$1:A2,MAX(IF($A$1:A1 0,ROW($A$1:A1)))+1):A2)))

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"Fingerjob" wrote in message
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Hi again,

Improvements with the formula:
"IF(A2<0" should be "IF(A2<=0"
and
If the negative numbers sums up to be greater then the next positive

number
it will show a negative number.
I dont know how to solve it. :-)

Bob Phillips skrev:

Except that doesn't do what was asked by the OP. He said that he wanted

the
sum ... between two months with positive returns ...

In other words, when a positive number is met, it adds all amounts after

the
previous positive. Yours just adds irrespective.

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"Danny Lewis" wrote in message
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Wow that was complicated

put in B1

=IF(A1<0,0,SUM($A$1:A1))
and drag this formula down...


"Fingerjob" wrote:

Bob,

That did the work. Much better then mine. :-)

Bob Phillips skrev:

Put this in B1

=IF(A1<0,0,A1)

Then in B2, add


=IF(A2<0,0,SUM(INDEX($A$1:A2,MAX(IF($A$1:A10,ROW( $A$1:A1)))+1):A2))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with

Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.

and copy B2 down.

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"andrewc"

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Thanks Bob!

I can't adapt your formula for my purpose so I'm either being

thick
or
didn't explain myself properly:

Column A
-0.22%
-0.80%
2.00%
3.63%
-1.00%
3.00%
5.00%

In cells b2 and b3 I would want a formula to return 0 (I want

all
negative numbers in column a to be regarded as 0) while cell b4

would
contain the value 0.98% (ie the sum of a4 and any preceding

negative
numbers since the last positive number). And so the series in

column
b
would continue.

Again, any help would be much appreciated!


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