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Default Sumproduct Issue

Instead of having to work-around the junk that one gets when importing data
from a website why not clean that junk and get rid of it?

There is a macro here that will do just that:

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall

I have this macro attached to a button on one of my toolbars. Every time I
import/copy/paste from a website I run this macro to clean all the junk.


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Jeff Gross" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet in which I need to sum a column based on two criteria.
The data is a MS query from an external file that is retrieved from a
website. The data always has two hidden spaces at the end of each cell.

The formula must look for the word "APPR " in column BF35:BF1000 and
"ANKLE
" in column BG35:BG1000. If those criteria are met, then the associated
data in column BA35:BA1000 must be added together (not counted as in using
the "Count" statement).

At first I used a sumproduct formula:

=SUMPRODUCT((BF35:BF1000="APPR ")*(BG35:BG1000="ANKLE ")*(BA35:BA1000))

but it looks like the data in column BA35:BA1000 may be text and not a
number (the cell is in a general format), so it looks like the SUM
statement
is ignoring them.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this summation to occur?

Thanks in advance.

Jeff