#value display

J

Jerry

I have two spreadsheets where in the first one I enter numbers for the week
throughout the month. These values go from 1-1000. Also accepted values for
these cells are text when no collection of values is done or when is excused.
For instance:
week 1 week2
c g k o s w aa ae ai am
65 32 210 OPT EXC 56 LV 10 32 40
I take the values of the 5 days and add them and put the total in another
summary spreadsheet. The problem arises when the sum of these values picks
up the text and gives me a #value error. What I want is that whenever it
encounters text in the computations it treats them as zeros thus bypassing
the error and giving me the total desired. Thanks in advance.
 
K

Kassie

You do not say how you add these values. Should you say =C5+G5+K5+O5+S5, you
will get a #VALUE error. However, if you use =SUM(C5,G5,K5,O5,S5), you will
get the correct answer.
 

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