That's the accounting (or currency) format.

You'll see that if the cell's value is 0.

Format the cell in some other way (General???) (and keep the columnwidth wide).

sjrobards wrote:

Yes, that's not it. I tried widening it. Anyway, you get a group of ####
signs when the column isn't wide enough. I just get this: $ -
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sjrobards

"June Bug" wrote:

Is the column wide enough?

"sjrobards" wrote:

When I use the autosum icon on the toolbar to add contiguous rows in one
column, I just get a dash and a dollar sign. I can't get it to compute the
sum.
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Dave Peterson