Using Autosum

[sjrobards]

When I use the autosum icon on the toolbar to add contiguous rows in one
column, I just get a dash and a dollar sign. I can't get it to compute the
sum.

 

[June Bug]

Is the column wide enough?

 

[sjrobards]

Yes, that's not it. I tried widening it. Anyway, you get a group of ####
signs when the column isn't wide enough. I just get this: $ -

 

[Dave Peterson]

That's the accounting (or currency) format.

You'll see that if the cell's value is 0.

Format the cell in some other way (General???) (and keep the columnwidth wide).

 

[Gord Dibben]

Your cells are formatted to Accounting Style and your total is zero.

Sounds like the "numbers" are not real numbers.

Format all to general. Copy an empty cell.

Select the range of numbers and Edit>Paste Special>Add>OK>Esc.

Now do you get a SUM?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP