LiveCycle Designer 8 Adding Cells

Hello,
I'm trying to get two cells to add one another(A1 + A2) and dump that data into a third cell(A3). The formula on A3 is: Sum (A1,A2). I think I have the formula correct, but when the PDF is created it doesn't add the two together. What am I missing? Please help!
Thank you!
-Chris

No, but thanks for the reply... it made me go back into the PDF and take a second look.
I figured out that under the Show: list it was set to "Events with Scripts"(the default) not "Calculate" like it needed to be for this!
Thanks again and good luck to other people - hope this will help out someone with this same problem!
-Chris

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