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Nikki has attended:
Excel Introduction course

Summing

how to autosum a row?

RE: summing

Hi Nikki

To use Autosum button from the standard toolbar, place your cursor where you want the result of the sum calculation to be displayed.

Ensure there is no data in the column immediately above the cursor position.
Ensure there is data immediately to the left of the cursor position; by then selecting Autosum Excel will confirm the summing of the row with "marching ants"

If there is data immediately above the cursor position Autosum will attempt to sum the column, you will then need to manually highlight the range of cells in the row





Excel tip:

Checking if a calculation adheres to Order of Precedence

When writing formulas you must make sure that results will be calculated as you intended.

Excel adheres to the standard order of precedence for calculations. It calculates percentages, exponents, multiplication, and division in this order before calculating addition and subtraction.

For example, =7+5*3 results in an answer of 22, not 36.

To force a calculation to be completed before another calculations, place the section in parentheses: =(7+5)*3 will result in 36.

To check how excel is evaluating a formula, click on the cell and select the 'Tools' menu, select 'Formula Auditing' and click 'Evaluate Formula'

In the dialog box click on 'Evaluate' to watch as each part of the formula is successively calculated.

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