Excel Gremlins

dedelkoo

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Hi All;

I've got a weird question. I'm having trouble with a data dump; specifically summing a column. Currently my =sum(E2:E12) returns a 0 result. i.e.

Pizza 100
Wings 100
Pop 100
Sum 0

However If I manually click on each cell with a value (all of the 100's above) and press F2 enter then the sum formula works properly.

It appears to be a case of formatting, but seeing as this file is overwritten daily I'm trying to avoid having to manually refomat every day.

All thoughts are appreciated,

Derek
 

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By code. The macro opens another workbook then copy/pastes the worksheet in as a data dump. I have no control over the data source workbook as its received from a vendor.

Thanks for the reply; your thoughts are appreciated.

Derek
 
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It's "Numbers Stored As Text"

Very common issue.


Highlight the whole column.
Click Data - Text To Columns
Select Deliminated
Click Finish


Hope that helps.
 
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