Steve,

Your formula
=Sum(abs(A1:D1))

Will give the correct answer if you enter it by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Enter
and NOT just enter. If you do it correctly excel will put curly brackets
around it {}. You cant type these yourself.

Mike


"SteveG" wrote:

I need to sum a row of numbers that are both positive and negative. What I
would like to do is sum them as absolute values.

Example:
A1=2, B1=-3, C1=-1, D1=5
Sum(abs(A1:D1)) should equal 11 (2+3+1+5) not 3 (2-3-1+5).

This doesn't work. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do this.