I have a column of numbers, say 1,2,3,4,5,6 in cells A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6. I want the sum of the alternating products, i.e. A1*A2+A3*A4+A5*A6. I have tried SUMPRODUCT(--(MOD(ROW(A1:A4),2)=1),A1:A4,--(MOD(ROW(A1:A4),2)=0),A1:A4) but this returns a zero value.
Any ideas?