paste special values does not tabulate

[pegman]

I have values coming into a worksheet by linking and formulas.

I was able to copy and retain those values into the new worksheet and let
them sum... the values paste fine and show correctly. However they no longer
sum. I manually have to reenter each number now.

I've tried reformatting etc, just can't figure out why they are ignored when
"paste special values" is used???

 

[Max]

The data could be text nums which will not respond to summations
Copy any empty cell, then select the range of "nums"
Right-click > paste special > Check "Add" > OK
That should convert all at one go to real nums, enabling downstream calcs.
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[pegman]

the worksheet layout won't really allow that, the wierd part is half the
cells will sum, half the cells don't, and the remaining cells contain text
which copies correctly??!??

 

[Max]

The method suggested will not impact real nums or real text, if any, within
the range. So I'm not sure why you say:

the worksheet layout won't really allow that

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[pegman]

When I copy, paste special, add I lose all the text data... it looks as
though it does sum all the cells correctly though

 

[Max]

I'm afraid you mis-understood. The steps suggested to convert all nums to
real nums were to be done AFTER you have done your earlier whatever paste
special as values processes that you mentioned you did.

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