Hi,

I have a spreadsheet invoice were most of the line charges are formulas
looking up other spreadsheets.

There is a sum function for the total of the column, however when it adds:

$326.08 and $32.61 the total given is $358.61. It should be $385.69.

All the cells that are being added have been formated to 2 decinal places.

How do i get the correct answer?
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Nenagh

The cells to be added need not only be formatted to 2 decimal places, they
also have to be rounded (see for ROUND function), so that that Excel
calculates values exactly as they are being displayed.

Joerg


"Nenagh" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have a spreadsheet invoice were most of the line charges are formulas
looking up other spreadsheets.

There is a sum function for the total of the column, however when it adds:

$326.08 and $32.61 the total given is $358.61. It should be $385.69.

All the cells that are being added have been formated to 2 decinal places.

How do i get the correct answer?
--
Nenagh

If you can't or don't want to apply the ROUND function to the values used
for the summation, you can use ROUND in your SUM function.
Example:
A1: 326.084 (displays as 326.08)
A2: 32.614 (displays as 32.61)
A3: =SUM(A1:A2) (displays as 358.70 <= you want this to be displayed as
358.69)

You could use an array formula in A3 to get the desired result:
=SUM(ROUND(A1:A2,2))

You need to input the formula with Ctrl+Shift+Enter, not just Enter. This
will put curly brackets around the formula.

Cheers,

Joerg


"Joerg Mochikun" wrote in message
...
The cells to be added need not only be formatted to 2 decimal places, they
also have to be rounded (see for ROUND function), so that that Excel
calculates values exactly as they are being displayed.

Joerg


"Nenagh" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have a spreadsheet invoice were most of the line charges are formulas
looking up other spreadsheets.

There is a sum function for the total of the column, however when it
adds:

$326.08 and $32.61 the total given is $358.61. It should be $385.69.

All the cells that are being added have been formated to 2 decinal
places.

How do i get the correct answer?
--
Nenagh