Sum of column (with word in)

[ianonline]

Can anyone help with what I guess is simple but I'm stuck with!

I'm producing an invoice template. The postage is (thanks to brilliant help provided to someone else on ExcelTip) now calculated automatically and when the subtotal is over a certain value, then the postage cell displays the word "FREE".

I am summing up J46 (subtotal) minus J47 (discount) + J48 (postage)

Now, Excel can't normally add up a column of numbers that includes a word, but I expect there is a way around it. Do you know what it is?

Thank you for your help.

Ian

[Biff]

Hi!

Try this:

=J46-J47+IF(J48="Free",0,J48)

Biff

"ianonline" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Can anyone help with what I guess is simple but I'm stuck with!
>
> I'm producing an invoice template. The postage is (thanks to brilliant
> help provided to someone else on ExcelTip) now calculated automatically
> and when the subtotal is over a certain value, then the postage cell
> displays the word "FREE".
>
> I am summing up J46 (subtotal) minus J47 (discount) + J48 (postage)
>
> Now, Excel can't normally add up a column of numbers that includes a
> word, but I expect there is a way around it. Do you know what it is?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Ian
>
>
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[Dave Peterson]

A couple more:

=SUM(J46,-J47,J48)

=j46-j47+N(j48)



ianonline wrote:
>
> Can anyone help with what I guess is simple but I'm stuck with!
>
> I'm producing an invoice template. The postage is (thanks to brilliant
> help provided to someone else on ExcelTip) now calculated automatically
> and when the subtotal is over a certain value, then the postage cell
> displays the word "FREE".
>
> I am summing up J46 (subtotal) minus J47 (discount) + J48 (postage)
>
> Now, Excel can't normally add up a column of numbers that includes a
> word, but I expect there is a way around it. Do you know what it is?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Ian
>
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> ianonline
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[ianonline]

That's fantastic and works well. I went with the third one where N represents any word so that I can easily change the word in the postage formula. thnaks again. :

Ian