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Hello Everyone,
I need assistance creating a formula that will give the sum of every fifth cell in a single column.
Hi cbonnell!
In order to best assist you I'd like to understand a bit more about your use case and how your sheet is organized. There may be a better solution than using to calculate a sum of every 5th cell in a column.For example, you may be able to take advantage of row hierarchy and the hierarchy functions (CHILDREN, PARENT, ANCESTORS) to create rollups.
See these articles for more information:https://help.smartsheet.com/functions
https://help.smartsheet.com/articles/504734-hierarchy-indenting-outdenting-rows
Thanks,Schiff
Just throwing this out there:
You can always have a new extra column that repeatedly counts 1-5
=IF(CountCellAbove=5,1,CountCellAbove + 1)
Then your Sum formula can be:
=IF(CountCellCurrentRow=5,SumCellAbove+CurrentRowValue,SumCellAbove)
If you need more help understanding what I mean, let me know.
Jim