{"id":8127,"date":"2021-11-26T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=8127"},"modified":"2021-11-26T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:45:01","slug":"excel-sum-formula-returns-0","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/excel-sum-formula-returns-0\/10817.html","title":{"rendered":"Excel Sum Formula Returns 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty good with lots of excel formulas (counts, database, financial, and the basics), so I must be missing something really obvious here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using excel all morning, and sent a file to someone for input. After I got the file back, any excel file I open and try to do a basic sum of two rows returns zero.<\/p>\n<p>Cell 1: 100<br \/>\nCell 2: 3<br \/>\nCell 3 =sum(a1:a2) returns zero<\/p>\n<p>1. I&#8217;ve checked the calculation window and it is set to automatic<br \/>\n2. I&#8217;ve checked the cell format and made sure it&#8217;s numbers.<br \/>\n3. I even cut and pasted the cells as values and numbers just in case<\/p>\n<p>what is up?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":6},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}