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Thu 14 Mar 2024, 09:42Delegate Nitisha said...
Nitisha has attended:
Excel Introduction course
Formulas
Can I do a sum / formula to add up cells that already have a currency e.g. £ in them? I tried to but the number said zero. I had a column of numbers, some just stated as a number e.g. "172.50" and others "£26" -and wanted to add those up.
Thu 14 Mar 2024, 11:53Trainer Jens said...
RE: Formulas
Hi Nitisha,
Thank you for the forum question.
Yes all numbers can be added up. It doesn't matter if the numbers are formatted or not. Use =sum(A1:A10) if the numbers are in the cells from A1 to A10.
But Excel cannot add the numbers up if the numbers are entered as text.
If the numbers are right aligned in the cells it is numbers stored as numbers. If they are left aligned the numbers are stored as text and cannot be added up.
If you have the numbers as text you will need to find out why.
Kind regards
Jens Bonde
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Thu 14 Mar 2024, 14:26Delegate Nitisha said...
RE: Formulas
Hi Jens
Thanks v much for your message. The numbers that are text appear to have been auto generated from a pdf - i imported that data. I will not be able to know why it was inputted as text.
Is there a way in which I can still do the sum?
thank you
Nitisha
Thu 14 Mar 2024, 14:33Trainer Jens said...
RE: Formulas
Hi Nitisha,
No you cannot calculate text.
You will have to convert your values to numbers.
Please read the article below
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/convert-numbers-stored-as-text-to-numbers-40105f2a-fe79-4477-a171-c5bad0f0a885
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