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Adding text columns
I am not very knowledgeable in excel. I have data that was imported into
excel as text. each column is characters. Each column represents time duration. All charecters are zero except the last one or two in each column. I have tried different formats to try to add the totals but keep getting a zero for the total. What am I doing wrong? |
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Adding text columns
=sum() will ignore text. So I would think if you imported the data as real
numbers, then your formula would work ok. ARS_MEL wrote: I am not very knowledgeable in excel. I have data that was imported into excel as text. each column is characters. Each column represents time duration. All charecters are zero except the last one or two in each column. I have tried different formats to try to add the totals but keep getting a zero for the total. What am I doing wrong? -- Dave Peterson |
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Hi,
If your data is a column something like 0001 0002 0001 0023 0014 then try =SUM(VALUE(A1:A5)) entered as an array formula with Control-Shift-Enter Dave url:http://www.ureader.com/msg/104234935.aspx |
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