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Old April 26th, 2010, 12:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Dave Peterson
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Default Despite formula I use (for example SUM) result is always zero.

And any chance that the sum is 0? Maybe you have positive, negative and zero
values in the range?

And one more thing to check.

Type these two formulas in separate cells:
=count(A1:a10)
=counta(a1:a10)

(change A1:A10 to the range you're summing.)

=count() will count the numbers in the range.
=counta() will count numbers, strings, even formulas that evaluate to "" in the
range.

Anida wrote:

When I put =isnumber(a2) it shows me true, and for =istext false. What next?

"David Biddulph" wrote:

It doesn't matter whether the cells are FORMATTED to DISPLAY as number;
what matters is whether the CONTENTS are numbers. My guess is that they are
text that might look like a number. If one of your numbers is in A2, what
do the formulae =ISTEXT(A2) and =ISNUMBER(A2) show?
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"Anida" wrote in message
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Despite formula I use (for example the most simple SUM) it always shows me
zero result even it should show a lot more. Values in other cells (cells
that
I sum) are in number format. Why this happens??



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