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Excel for Mac 2011 - autosum function not working

Hi - I am running OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 and have Office for Mac 2011. In Excel, the autosum function seem to have stopped working - any ideas?

I've done all the usual including:

- making sure that the cells are formulated as 'numbers'

- not copying from an external source (so I know they are numbers, not 'text)

- tried using a table within excel

- make sure that the excel preferences>calculation ... is set to automatically

- made sure that the region is UK (as this affects how data is sometimes displayed)

- everything else I've found via searching the internet, including 'cleaning' my data, copying it into word and clearing any formatting then pasting it back again.

I'm stumped - anyone else had this problem? Below are 4 images to show what happens:

If I manually type in the formula, I just get 0's:

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If I try the autosum function after selecting the range of cells, it just inserts =sum() in the first highlighted cell (see below)


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If I select a cell at the end and click autosum, same problem:


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And if I try and do it as a table, same again:

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Aug 29, 2015 11:32 AM

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Posted on Aug 29, 2015 12:59 PM

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Aug 29, 2015 1:10 PM in response to ShonalL04

I may be wrong, but it looks likely that the numbers are being treated as text given they are aligned left instead of right. If the cursor is in a cell and you click the AutoSum control it should insert the function =Sum(<Range>) where range consists of the cell immediately above the cell clicked on as long as it holds a numeric value, and then in turn each cell above that until a non-numeric is encountered. If there are no qualifying cells above it will try to the left, otherwise you get =SUM(). Note that your sum uses a comma as a decimal separator whereas all of your entered numbers use a period. At a guess your regional settings are at odds with your number formatting preference.


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Excel for Mac 2011 - autosum function not working

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