Why have you used SUM there? It isn't doing anything in your formula.
Why not just
=IF(A1<0,-1*(A1)+50,0) or =IF(A1<0,-A1+50,0) or =IF(A1<0,50-A1,0) or
=(50-A1)*(A1<0)

Perhaps you should look at Excel help for the SUM function?
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David Biddulph

"triniqueen" wrote in message
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Thanks alot, I went in an modified it a little and it worked great!!!!!! I
put =SUM(IF(A1<0,-1*(A1)+50,0)) . I got exactly what I was after!!!!!!
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Ksy


"smartin" wrote:

triniqueen wrote:
Is there a way I could sum a cell, make it a positive number and add
50, only
if the cell has a negative number in it?

Not sure if this is what you mean:

=IF(A1<0,-A1+50,NA()) // works on one cell only

or, if you want to operate on a range (these are array formulae; commit
with Ctrl+Shift+Enter):

=SUM(IF($A$1:$A$4<0,-1*($A$1:$A$4)+50,0)) // adds 50 to each value
or
=SUM(IF($A$1:$A$4<0,-1*($A$1:$A$4),0))+50 // adds 50 to the result