No, because on month three of the year, it would be =sum(e5:g5) while on
month 10 of the year it would be =sum(e5:n5).

"Don Guillett" wrote:

I guess =sum(e5:m5) wouldn't do?

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Robert_L_Ross" wrote in message
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Weird one, but I know someone out there knows how to do this...

I have two rows, this fiscal year and last fiscal year.
I have a count of the cells that have values for this fiscal year (let's
say
the count of cells e6:p6 is 8).
I want to then sum the first 8 cells in row 5 (e5:p5) so I can return last
fy to date compared to this fy to date.

How would I build a function that would sum the first 8 cells in row 5?