Sounds like the cell if formatted as TEXT. Change the cells format to
GENERAL then hit function key F2 then hit Enter.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Soshagayle" wrote in message
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I am new.. I did the tutorials.. I have a new spread sheet and I can not
get
the auto sum to work. I highlight my column and hit auto sum and it gives
me
a formula but no total. I pushed enter but I can not figure this out.
I'm a
dummy.
Please help me.