hi Keith
thanks for the reply and for checking.
I too get the result of B:D would skip the NP amounts in column C. However, the B+C+D does include the NP values from column C.
I posted to the community more because within MR the NP label implies that the columns will be included in CALCS, when they are not unless you name them specifically. To then make jack and jill user like myself aware that MR will in fact ignore those columns unless referenced specifically. Tedious when you have lots of companies (I have 22 companies to reference one by one, each company gets a column)