Could you send a description of your problem (include information about Office and Windows version and a screen shot of any error messages)?

Thanks,
- Jon
jp at peltiertech dot com

If you extracted the exe file from the zip file, the only step left is to run the exe file, by double clicking on it in the Windows Explorer window. This file installs the add-in, and puts it in Excel’s list of add-ins. It also provides the menu/toolbar interface.

If you have further questions, feel free to follow up by email at jonxlmvp at peltiertech dot com.

Yes, Yes, Yes!

Hurray, it worked!

Thank you very much! I am very happy Ihave been smiling all afternoon

Cheers once aagain

The cells in question are not numberic. You can make this clear if you don’t apply any horizontal alignment (i.e., use General on the Format Cells > Alignment tab). After removing the horizontal alignment, the numbers in the first column are right aligned (as numbers are by default), but those in the offending column are left aligned (as text is by default).

Each of the pseudo-numbers in the offending column ends with a non-breaking space, which throws off Excel’s data parsing algorithms. This character is obtained by holding Alt while pressing 0160 on the numeric keypad. In your post, these invisible characters were represented by “¬ºbr”, which should have been a tipoff that we were dealing with invalid characters.

Anyway, select the column, go to Edit menu > Replace, click in the Find What box and type Alt+0160, keep the Replace With box clear, and click Replace All. This will convert the cells to numeric.

I could not make it work and I took the liberty and send my little file to your email address

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience

mathsmagician

1. Select the one-column range, go to Format menu > Cells, and make sure a numeric format (or General) is selected. Then use Data menu > Text to Columns, and in Step 3, make sure the General option is selected for Column Data Format.

2. Copy a blank cell, select the range of numbers stored as text, use Edit menu > Paste Special, and choose the Values and Operation – Add options, and press Okay.

Thanks

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In the above sets I can do totals in the first column but not on the second column, though both are supposed to be numbers. 6750 and 0 on the last line are obtained by summing the number in these columns.

I do not know how to attach the little spreadsheet but they are from a spreadsheet.

Could you please help me which function will change the second column into real number and sum will work?