Positive and Negative Numbers not Summing Correctly

[TulsaJeff]

I have a column of numbers in Excel...some positive some negative. I just realized they are not summing right. If I remove all of the numbers except two where one is -1200 and the other one is 1200 it sums them as 1200 when in reality it is 0. Is there something I can do to get past this problem?I am using Microsoft Excel 2002 by the way.

Regards,
TulsaJeff

 

[ETID]

Make sure the entire column is formated as a number.

 

[KenWright]

Just formatting the column will not do the trick. If the data is already set to text in some of the cells, then it needs to be coerced back to numeric. Format the cells as numbver as suggested, but then copy an empty cell, select your range of numbers and do Edit / Paste Special / Add.

This should fix the problem.

Regards
Ken...............

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