Why Excel SUM is zero.
Why Excel Sum function not working.
Why Excel SUM returns 0.
Why Excel Sum is wrong.
Why Excel Sum shows 0.
Why Excel Not Showing Sum.
Why Excel Sum Formula Not working.
Do you have a column of numbers that won't sum in Excel? It is most likely that the numbers have been stored as text. Here are two quick ways to convert those text numbers and the numbers will then sum.
One frustrating behavior when this happens: =SUM(A2:A4) is zero, but =A2+A3+A4 calculates correctly. That is because the plus sign coerces a number out of the text, but the SUM function is programmed to ignore text.
Why Excel Sum function not working.
Why Excel SUM returns 0.
Why Excel Sum is wrong.
Why Excel Sum shows 0.
Why Excel Not Showing Sum.
Why Excel Sum Formula Not working.
Do you have a column of numbers that won't sum in Excel? It is most likely that the numbers have been stored as text. Here are two quick ways to convert those text numbers and the numbers will then sum.
One frustrating behavior when this happens: =SUM(A2:A4) is zero, but =A2+A3+A4 calculates correctly. That is because the plus sign coerces a number out of the text, but the SUM function is programmed to ignore text.
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Why Excel sum is 0.
Why Excel SUM not working?
Why Excel SUM returns zero?
Seems like it's a popular question.
Well you know the autosum, Alt+Equals, should SUM some numbers.
But sometimes you get 0.
And even worse, if you build the formula the wrong way, the horrific way, it freaking works.
What's going on?
Somehow these numbers came in stored as text.
Choose the numbers, open the little drop down, say, Convert To Number and you're good to go.
Over here someone typed space, space, space and then the number.
Same thing.
Open the drop down, Convert To Number.
Here someone is completely evil.
They chose to ignore the error.
Now we don't have the drop-down!
Data, Text To Columns, Delimited, Finish and it's back.
Why Excel SUM not working?
Why Excel SUM returns zero?
Seems like it's a popular question.
Well you know the autosum, Alt+Equals, should SUM some numbers.
But sometimes you get 0.
And even worse, if you build the formula the wrong way, the horrific way, it freaking works.
What's going on?
Somehow these numbers came in stored as text.
Choose the numbers, open the little drop down, say, Convert To Number and you're good to go.
Over here someone typed space, space, space and then the number.
Same thing.
Open the drop down, Convert To Number.
Here someone is completely evil.
They chose to ignore the error.
Now we don't have the drop-down!
Data, Text To Columns, Delimited, Finish and it's back.
