You'll need to tell us what non-standard settings you are using. By
default, that would return zero. Perhaps you have display of zeroes
suppressed?
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David Biddulph

"HKaplan" wrote in message
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Try simplifying the formula as I suggested, leaving out the count
statement. =sum(A1:A20) is all you need to total a column. If the
answer is zero, then the cell will be blank.