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Check cell formats and contents in B2:B8.  SUM() will not add numbers
within cells formatted as text or numbers preceded by a half quote.  Per
below the sum() result is 4 as such items are not summed.

4 '=SUM(B2:B8)
2 Cell number format with '2  (note the half quote)
3 Cell number format with '3  (note the half quote)
5 Cell formatted as text.
1 Cell number format with 1
1 Cell number format with 1
1 Cell number format with 1
1 Cell number format with 1


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:03 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi all,

I was trying a simple addition in column =SUM(B2:B8)

but that didn't work . I am getting the output as zero.

Could somebody look at it and share what is/was wrong ?

Sharing an example worksheet for the same.
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