Good morning, I am trying to sum the values of a series of cells and the values of some cells are not counted. The value of the cell is binary (either 1 or 0), but is determined by an if statement, such as EXAMPLE: =IF(A1="ball", "1", "0") ...the cells the result is sent to is set to "number," but cells with "1" are not being counted. Are the values still being read as text because of the formula? Any help would be much appreciated!
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It's your fault, I'm afraid - you have made them into text.
Change this:
=IF(A1="ball", "1", "0")
to this:
=IF(A1="ball", 1, 0)
Ali
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I suspected as much, thank you so much!
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Will do x2, Thanks again!
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