Thanks a lot; this worked really well across several multi-linked spreadsheets.

"Teethless mama" wrote:

=SUM(LARGE(A1:A5,{1,2,3}))


"stevengepp" wrote:

Is there a way of taking a list of five numbers and adding together only the
highest 3 (ignoring or dropping the two lowest marks)? E.g. if the numbers
were 2,5,7,4,5, the numbers 5,7,5 would be added, 2 and 4 being ignored.