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Apparent Formula Problem
Hoping someone can help with an apparent formula problem I'm having. I'm
working with a very simple spreadsheet showing different projects and their monthly costs each month over the course of a year (cost figures cut and paste from Microsoft Project) I want to put a simple "sum" formula at the bottom of each month column to add up all the costs for each month but when I put in the formula (=SUM(B32:B79)) a green trianlge appears in the top left of the cell which which tells me that the forumla omits adjacent cells (not sure what this means), and I can't cut and paste the total figure to another sheet as it pastes REF! I can click another option that lets me "update the formula to include cells" but when I do this the total for each column that it gives me is incorrect. Does anyone have any idea how to rectify this. Many thanks. -- Project for Work, Cigars for Pleasure |
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I think that when you have pasted the monthly figures in from MS
Project they have come in as text values. Select a blank cell with a General format and click <copy, then highlight all the offending cells and click on Edit | Paste Special | Values (check) | Add (check) | OK then <Esc. This should have turned them into proper numbers. Hope this helps. Pete On Apr 23, 2:15*pm, Gary wrote: Hoping someone can help with an apparent formula problem I'm having. I'm working with a very simple spreadsheet showing different projects and their monthly costs each month over the course of a year (cost figures cut and paste from Microsoft Project) I want to put a simple "sum" formula at the bottom of each month column to add up all the costs for each month but when I put in the formula (=SUM(B32:B79)) a green trianlge appears in the top left of the cell which which tells me that the forumla omits adjacent cells (not sure what this means), and I can't cut and paste the total figure to another sheet as it pastes REF! I can click another option that lets me "update the formula to include cells" but when I do this the total for each column that it gives me is incorrect. Does anyone have any idea how to rectify this. Many thanks. -- Project for Work, Cigars for Pleasure |
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