For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...
The text trap: If you select numbers and the status bar stays blank (or only shows the Count), your numbers are formatted as text—and Excel can't sum words! This tells you that you should click the ...
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