Hi guys, I'm trying to set up a new spreadsheet and I'm doing something wrong but my brain is just not comprehending it at the moment.

Here is the problem, in the first image I am calculating a total of one cell minus another cell, this works fine. In the second image I m trying to calculate the previous answer multiplied by another cell......but it isn't working and despite all my efforts I can't get it to work.......your help would be most welcome.







The Archangel

I have created spreadsheets with sums using quick office pro, I used brackets so the sum in the bracket was calculated before the next bit.... Your situation sounds more complex but I did find the help files on their web site very help full.

Gabriel1,
Nothing wrong with your formulas, it's all about the format!
See below, I used your formulas and there is no problem - just in the £/miles you put a "." as the decimal separator, I put the "," - do NOT ask me why this is not depending on the country settings in Quickoffice (or it might well be) - I am using the German setting on my iPad.....

I just recreated your sums in my quick office pro.
Try removing sum and brackets..... So. You have. =b3-a3. And. =c3*d3

Give that a go.....worked on mine.

Originally Posted by hpulmer

Gabriel1,
Nothing wrong with your formulas, it's all about the format!
See below, I used your formulas and there is no problem - just in the £/miles you put a "." as the decimal separator, I put the "," - do NOT ask me why this is not depending on the country settings in Quickoffice (or it might well be) - I am using the German setting on my iPad.....

Originally Posted by psy

I just recreated your sums in my quick office pro.
Try removing sum and brackets..... So. You have. =b3-a3. And. =c3*d3

Give that a go.....worked on mine.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the help. psy's solution worked so I am a happy bunny again and can keep my mileage updated!

The Archangel

Originally Posted by psy

I just recreated your sums in my quick office pro.
Try removing sum and brackets..... So. You have. =b3-a3. And. =c3*d3

Give that a go.....worked on mine.

Justtrieditout - works fine with sum and brackets, but not with the . instead of the , on my sheet...

Originally Posted by hpulmer

Justtrieditout - works fine with sum and brackets, but not with the . instead of the , on my sheet...

Oops... But not with sum and brackets on a 'product' !
;o)

Originally Posted by hpulmer

Justtrieditout - works fine with sum and brackets, but not with the . instead of the , on my sheet...

Maybe I need to change the formatting somewhere but at least it's working. I'll do a copy/paste of the whole sheet and play around with the formatting at the weekend.....not enough time to play during the week at the moment.

The Archangel

Sweet.

Originally Posted by Gabriel1

Maybe I need to change the formatting somewhere but at least it's working. I'll do a copy/paste of the whole sheet and play around with the formatting at the weekend.....not enough time to play during the week at the moment.

The Archangel

A probably unnecessary explanation.

The SUM function adds up all the cells in a range. You don't put an arithmetic formula inside it; just the first and last cell in a range that you want to be added up. Say you wanted to add up cells A1, A2, and A3. You'd enter SUM(A1,A3) and you'd get the sum of all three cells. {Cell separators may differ from app to app, it might be SUM(A1:A3), I don't remember what Excel's separator was.}

You just wanted the difference and multiplication of two cells. The only functions you needed were the math operations inbetween, the (-) minus and (*) multiply operations.