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    Sum function returning incorrect results

    Hello All,

    I encountered a very odd situation when trying to sum up a large amount of cells containing the "time" formatting. It gives a very wrong sum - instead of ~31 hours, it returns ~5hours. I've tried everything, to determine if I have the wrong cell formatting (like text) - I don't; calculated subtotals for each day - worked very well, but when summing up the subtotals, the grand total is also wrong.

    Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

    Thank you!

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    Re: Sum function returning incorrect results

    Can you provide a sample workbook? Time formatting will include dates even if it is not seen... I have a feeling if you include the date format with the time format, you will see that the day is increased...

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    Re: Sum function returning incorrect results

    Change the cell's Hour time format to include square brackets: [h]:mm or [h]
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