Example: a number 1234 would sum individual dighits to a value of 10.

I thought there would be a function in Excel that would do that but can't
seem to find it. I don't want write a macro with MID functions to do the
summing. Is there such a function in Excel?

Thank you in advance for any help

Hi Bob

there is no direct function, but you could use the following:
=SUMPRODUCT(MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:" & LEN(A1))),1)*1)

hth

Carlo

On Jan 8, 9:17*am, Bob Ptacek
wrote:
Example: a number 1234 would sum individual dighits to a value of 10.

I thought there would be a function in Excel that would do that but can't
seem to find it. I don't want write a macro with MID functions to do the
summing. Is there such a function in Excel?

Thank you in advance for any help

Bob

=SUMPRODUCT(--MID($A$1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:" & LEN($A$1))),1))

I forget who originally posted this, but well done!


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:17:02 -0800, Bob Ptacek
wrote:

Example: a number 1234 would sum individual dighits to a value of 10.

I thought there would be a function in Excel that would do that but can't
seem to find it. I don't want write a macro with MID functions to do the
summing. Is there such a function in Excel?

Thank you in advance for any help

Is there such a function in Excel?
Afaik, no. but simple enough to create.

Public Function StringSum(str As String) As Long
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To Len(str)
StringSum = StringSum + Mid(str, i, 1)
Next i
End Function

A1: 1234
B1: =StringSum(A1)
B1 should display 10

--
HTH,
George


"Bob Ptacek" wrote in message
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Example: a number 1234 would sum individual dighits to a value of 10.

I thought there would be a function in Excel that would do that but can't
seem to find it. I don't want write a macro with MID functions to do the
summing. Is there such a function in Excel?

Thank you in advance for any help