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    Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    G'day Folks

    I have many Workbooks where Sheet1! Col H have individual values on many rows.
    I want to divide 1 by each value individually and return the SUM of those new values to Sheet2! Cell H1.

    Sample Workbook attached.

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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Formula: copy to clipboard 
    =sumproduct(--(1/h2:h20))


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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Thanks BSB..could you point the formula to sheet 1 for me thanks.
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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Formula: copy to clipboard 
    =SUMPRODUCT(--(1/Sheet1!H2:H20))


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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Okay, we are wearing it down now
    One more thing with it....
    Say I wanted to use a set range in the formula eg H2:H2000 but some of the cells in that range will be blank...can we make that work?
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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Perhaps something like...
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    =SUMPRODUCT(--(1/Sheet1!H2:INDEX(Sheet1!H2:H2000,COUNTA(Sheet1!H2:H2000))))


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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Try:

    =SUM(IFERROR(1/Sheet1!H2:H2000,0))

    ...confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. You will know the array is active when you see curly braces { } appear around your formula. If you do not CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will get an error or a clearly incorrect answer.
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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Champions one and all!
    Both solutions work!
    Thanks to you both.

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    Re: Formula to Divide '1' by individual values and return the SUM to a Cell

    Happy to help.

    Thanks for the rep point

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