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Telling excel to ignore blank cells in SUM formulas

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    Telling excel to ignore blank cells in SUM formulas

    Hi There

    Im trying to Sum the total of a number of cells using the following formula:
    =SUM(F57,H57,J57,L57,P57,N57,D57,,R57,V57,T57,X57)

    however some of those cells might be blanks as they are dependant on other data. The probelm im having is that when they are blank i am getting the the sum as 0. i know this isnt the case but dont know how to rectify my code.

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    Assuming there are no cells with text, the SUM function is redundant; just

    =F57+H57+J57 ...

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    Sum discontined blank formula cells

    For a Discontinued range: (F57,H57,J57,L57,P57,N57,D57,,R57,V57,T57,X57)
    The complicated way is to use: =IF(F57<>"",F57)+IF(H57<>"",H57)+...

    If you can make the range continous by for instance setting a 1 in row 58 for all cells that is to be calculated (and hide the row), then the formulas becomes easier:
    =SUMPRODUCT((F58:X58=1)*(F57:X57<>"")*(F57:X57))

    HTH
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