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Default Sum Wrong total but add each cell gives the correct total

"Sheeloo" wrote:
This should NOT happen. I can not think of any reason for this behaviour.

Believe the OP has text numbers in some cells. SUM will just ignore text
nums, while the "+" operator will coerce any text nums to real nums, hence
giving the correct total.

For OP:
Please tell me what I need to do to use =Sum(F23:J23)

Try adding a zero within the SUM range,
array-enter the formula by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER:
=Sum(F23:J23+0)
The above will coerce text nums to real nums within the range
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