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Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc



On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:27:12PM +0200, Floris wrote:

> What is your decimal separator?
> 
> Go to Tools --> Options --> language Settings --> Languages
> 
> Because when I replace the dots, with a comma the formula
> =SUM(N1:N8) works

Interestingly, on my system the items in those cells are not numbers at all.
They're labels (text) that therefore add up to zero.
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