Autosum returns an incorrect zero value on the selected cells
When i press autosum at the bottom of a range of cells the formula appears in
the cell but does not auto suggest cells to calculate. then even when i highlight the cells and press enter excell returns a zero value. However, if i enter the individual cells in the formula i.e. "=A1+A2+A3", it will give me the correct total. does anyone have any ideas whats going wrong. ps. when i tried autosum in a seperate column it worked perfectly, |
Likely the cells are text instead of numbers. SUM will ignore text, but
+ will coerce text to numbers if possible. =COUNT(range) will return zero if there are no numeric values in the range. Copy an empty cell, select the range in question, Edit|Paste Special|Add to force conversion to numbers. Jerry trying hard wrote: When i press autosum at the bottom of a range of cells the formula appears in the cell but does not auto suggest cells to calculate. then even when i highlight the cells and press enter excell returns a zero value. However, if i enter the individual cells in the formula i.e. "=A1+A2+A3", it will give me the correct total. does anyone have any ideas whats going wrong. ps. when i tried autosum in a seperate column it worked perfectly, |
Ok, I have just discovered that what i was actually working with was an
imported report from MS Access that my line manager saved as an Excell sheet. Autosum seems to work when i re enter the figures manually in the cells, but not if i copy and then paste them as values. I would be very gratefull if anyone have any ideas, because its going to be a long process to retype all the data ? "trying hard" wrote: When i press autosum at the bottom of a range of cells the formula appears in the cell but does not auto suggest cells to calculate. then even when i highlight the cells and press enter excell returns a zero value. However, if i enter the individual cells in the formula i.e. "=A1+A2+A3", it will give me the correct total. does anyone have any ideas whats going wrong. ps. when i tried autosum in a seperate column it worked perfectly, |
sorry Jerry I didnt see your reply before i added to my original post. I did
what you said and now all is hunky dory. thanks for your help. Regards Wayne "Jerry W. Lewis" wrote: Likely the cells are text instead of numbers. SUM will ignore text, but + will coerce text to numbers if possible. =COUNT(range) will return zero if there are no numeric values in the range. Copy an empty cell, select the range in question, Edit|Paste Special|Add to force conversion to numbers. Jerry trying hard wrote: When i press autosum at the bottom of a range of cells the formula appears in the cell but does not auto suggest cells to calculate. then even when i highlight the cells and press enter excell returns a zero value. However, if i enter the individual cells in the formula i.e. "=A1+A2+A3", it will give me the correct total. does anyone have any ideas whats going wrong. ps. when i tried autosum in a seperate column it worked perfectly, |
You're welcome, glad it helped
Jerry trying hard wrote: sorry Jerry I didnt see your reply before i added to my original post. I did what you said and now all is hunky dory. thanks for your help. Regards Wayne |
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