Right-click the cells you are referencing, and the cell you are doing your
calculation in. Select Format Cells. are any of those cells formatted as
Text? Format as General and try again.

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"blessed grandma" wrote:

I have entered this formula in a spreadsheet and wonder why it displays the
formula "=SUM(E4,E8,E11,E14,E17)" as text?