{"id":23653,"date":"2024-11-12T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/?p=23653"},"modified":"2024-11-12T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T15:40:14","slug":"good-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smarterbusinessprocesses.com\/good-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Value!","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes you might look at your data and *think* you can see a number, but when you come to use it in a formula it doesn&#8217;t do what you expect. &#x1f62d;<br><br>See the screen shot below, where the A+B column is putting the two text values together instead of seeing them as numbers and summing them.<br><br>You can use the VALUE() function within a formula to ensure that your formula treats the arguments involved as numeric data.<br><br>So the same formula =A@row + B@row with the Value() function surrounding each cell reference returns a different answer.<br><br>Here is Smartsheets help article on this useful function. <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/ej2__Dxd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/ej2__Dxd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you might look at your data and *think* you can see a number, but when you come to use it in a formula it doesn&#8217;t do what you expect. &#x1f62d; 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