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Totaling a row only if there are values in it
Hi,
Part of my spreadsheet has twelve columns, one for each month. To the right of this, is a column for the yearly total. I am trying to use a formula that will total up the sums across a row for each month. The problem is that if there is nothing entered into the monthly columns, then i don't want the total column to show zeros as this looks messy and may confuse some of the clerks who will be using this spreadsheet and have minimal excel training. I had posed this question here before and been told to use the "=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17 ,BB17,BC17,BD17,BE17)=1,SUM(AT17:BE17),"")" formula. This seemed to work well....until i entered values in for more than one of the months. When i do that, the total column just stays blank instead of adding up the monthly totals. Please help! Thanks. Shannan. |
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If the count is greater than or equal to 1 then sum...
=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17, BB17,BC17,BD17,BE17)=1,SUM(AT17:BE17),"") -- HTH... Jim Thomlinson "Shannan" wrote: Hi, Part of my spreadsheet has twelve columns, one for each month. To the right of this, is a column for the yearly total. I am trying to use a formula that will total up the sums across a row for each month. The problem is that if there is nothing entered into the monthly columns, then i don't want the total column to show zeros as this looks messy and may confuse some of the clerks who will be using this spreadsheet and have minimal excel training. I had posed this question here before and been told to use the "=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17 ,BB17,BC17,BD17,BE17)=1,SUM(AT17:BE17),"")" formula. This seemed to work well....until i entered values in for more than one of the months. When i do that, the total column just stays blank instead of adding up the monthly totals. Please help! Thanks. Shannan. |
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Try this instead
=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17, BB17,BC17,BD17,BE171,SUM(AT17:BE17),"") or =IF(SUM(AT17:BE17)0,sum(AT17:BE17),"") -- If this helps, please remember to click yes. "Shannan" wrote: Hi, Part of my spreadsheet has twelve columns, one for each month. To the right of this, is a column for the yearly total. I am trying to use a formula that will total up the sums across a row for each month. The problem is that if there is nothing entered into the monthly columns, then i don't want the total column to show zeros as this looks messy and may confuse some of the clerks who will be using this spreadsheet and have minimal excel training. I had posed this question here before and been told to use the "=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17 ,BB17,BC17,BD17,BE17)=1,SUM(AT17:BE17),"")" formula. This seemed to work well....until i entered values in for more than one of the months. When i do that, the total column just stays blank instead of adding up the monthly totals. Please help! Thanks. Shannan. |
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=IF(COUNT(AT17:BE17),SUM(AT17:BE17),"")
or =IF(SUM(AT17:BE17)0,SUM(AT17:BE17),"") If this post helps click Yes --------------- Jacob Skaria "Shannan" wrote: Hi, Part of my spreadsheet has twelve columns, one for each month. To the right of this, is a column for the yearly total. I am trying to use a formula that will total up the sums across a row for each month. The problem is that if there is nothing entered into the monthly columns, then i don't want the total column to show zeros as this looks messy and may confuse some of the clerks who will be using this spreadsheet and have minimal excel training. I had posed this question here before and been told to use the "=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17 ,BB17,BC17,BD17,BE17)=1,SUM(AT17:BE17),"")" formula. This seemed to work well....until i entered values in for more than one of the months. When i do that, the total column just stays blank instead of adding up the monthly totals. Please help! Thanks. Shannan. |
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Totaling a row only if there are values in it
If you want to retain that formula, then change it to this:
=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17, BB17,BC17,BD17,BE17) 0,S*UM(AT17:BE17),"") or you can simplify it to: =IF(COUNT(AT17:BE17)0,S*UM(AT17:BE17),"") Alternatively, you could just have: =SUM(AT17:BE17) and apply conditional formatting to the cell such that if the cell content is zero then use white as the foreground colour (so that 0 looks blank on a white background). Hope this helps. Pete On Sep 21, 5:31*pm, Shannan wrote: Hi, Part of my spreadsheet has twelve columns, one for each month. To the right of this, is a column for the yearly total. I am trying to use a formula that will total up the sums across a row for each month. The problem is that if there is nothing entered into the monthly columns, then i don't want the total column to show zeros as this looks messy and may confuse some of the clerks who will be using this spreadsheet and have minimal excel training.. I had posed this question here before and been told to use the "=IF(COUNT(AT17,AU17,AV17,AW17,AX17,AY17,AZ17,BA17 ,BB17,BC17,BD17,BE17)=1,S*UM(AT17:BE17),"")" formula. This seemed to work well....until i entered values in for more than one of the months. When i do that, the total column just stays blank instead of adding up the monthly totals. Please help! Thanks. Shannan. |
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