I just tried that and I'm still seeing "1" as the result of the multiply paste.

"Nick Hodge" wrote:

Try putting the 1 on a ne sheet or workbook before copying, so you know what
you copy is a number

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
DTHIS
www.nickhodge.co.uk


"mmrtech" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the reply, Nick. I looked up the value functions in my Oracle
SQL
guide, but couldn't figure out how to get them to work here. I next tried
the
copy/paste with multiplication, but the resulting value was 1. It's like
Excel is not even treating the data as numeric.

Any other suggestions?



"Nick Hodge" wrote:

External data, depending on it's source, quite often comes in as data,
try
either setting the data in MSQuery if you database accepts something like
the Val or Value functions, or copy a 1 and select your imported data and
EditPaste special...Values and multiply should 'force then to be seen as
numbers

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
DTHIS
www.nickhodge.co.uk


"mmrtech" wrote in message
...
I set up an external query to pull data from an Oracle database into a
sheet
in my excel file. I have array formulas on another sheet that use the
external data as their data source for calculations. The problem is
that
all
of the array formula results are zero.

I found that if I re-type the data in external data cells, the data is
recognized and my array formula sums increase accordingly. I think
there
is
some kind of hidden formatting on the external data, but can't find it.
Please help.

Thanks.