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In a budget spreadsheet created with Microsoft 365 and OneDrive, one of the columns intended for summing values in the budget category is yielding an incorrect total. The spreadsheet has a row for each day of the month and calculates the sum of all values in these columns.
Despite clearing contents and re-adding values, the sum for this specific column remains incorrect, while the sum functions for other categories work properly.
Any insights on diagnosing this issue?
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Select the column.
Set the Horizontal Alignment to General.
Do some values display as left-aligned? If so, Excel sees them as text values instead of as numbers, and it will ignore them in a SUM or SUMIF(S) formula.