OK, I tried all of the suggestions offered and did not get satisfactory
results with any of them. I'm not sure what happened with my earlier replay
thanks ya'll for the inputs. I had to use Excel help to find out what a few
of the functions did so I learned from that but I still dn't know what the
N() function does.

I did adjust everyone of the formulas offered to match my actual data and
maybe that had some impact on the results.

I created a separate spreadsheet with all of the formulas and their
respective results as well as a breakdown of the formulas to help me
understand how they worked. I would gladly provide this spreadsheet to
anyone willing to provide additional help but I don't know if there is a way
to attach it to this thread.

Again thanks for the positive feedback.

"Carl" wrote:

I want to be able to SUM the last 4 values in row. I know the exact location
of the last cell so this would appear to be my starting point and I would
work backwards from thee. But the cells preceding it may contain a value or
there may be a blank cell. There can only be a maximum of 1 blank cell in
the row of values I want to sum, so the blank cell may or may not be in the
last 4 cells I want to sum. If it is one of the last 4 cells then I want to
go back 5 cells so that I end up with 4 values summed.

Example: 14 20 23 38 41 blank 28 16

Since I want to sum the last 4 cells with values, I know I want to sum
38+41+28+16 but I have to define my range for the last 5 cells to get 4 valid
cells

But if I have...

Example: 14 20 23 38 41 28 16

I still want to sum the last 4 values but now the range is only the last 4
cells because there is no blank cell in the range.

Am I trying to make this too complex?