On Sun, 15 May 2005 20:28:01 -0700, Weekend user
wrote:

Ok, A few weeks ago I asked for help in finding the smallest two numbers in a
group of numbers that were added together in order to reduce the total by the
smallest numbers. the form that was suggested was(using my cell locations):
=sum(I9,L9,R9,V9,Y9-small((I9,L9,R9,V9,Y9),{1,2}))
This is not working correctly, assume that the the values in the designated
cells are the following values:0, 11, 9, 9, 15; the value that is computed is
50. The only thing that seems to be consistent is that the last value is
added in again then the two smallest values are subtracted. I tried on
several sets of values and it was always coming up the same way, if I add the
last value in then subtract the two lowest values it matches what Excel
computes. Obviously I am doing something wrong but what?

All comments, and suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

It's close. But if you use the Evaluate Formula button (Tools/Formula
Auditing/Evaluate Formula) you will see that your formula is not doing what you
expect.

Try this slight modification, instead:

=SUM(I9,L9,R9,V9,Y9)-SUM(SMALL((I9,L9,R9,V9,Y9),{1,2}))


--ron