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Brackets are negative-sum doesn't work?

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    Brackets are negative-sum doesn't work?

    I recently downloaded an excel spreadsheet from betfair showing P&L for a days betting. The P&L column showed losses in brackets and profits without brackets, but my attempts to total the P&L column resulted in the answer 'zero'. Can anybody let me know how to total the column?
    Attached is a zipped xls file.
    Thanks,
    Robert Weaver
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    Hi,

    Welcome to the forum, Excel is reading your "numbers" as text, if you select the range of cells L3:L23, then go the Data > Text to columns, then just click Finish, they should convert to proper numbers and your SUM will work.
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