I am trying to develop a calculation in word

Dear Lisa

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I am not sure how comfortable you are with Excel but when you want to perform calculations in Word Table the principle of the cells are the same as Excel although you do not see the Column letters and Row numbers. Therefore, First cell in your Word table will be A1. If you want to calculate all the cells in the table to be calculated assume that, your first column is Column A and the first Row is Row 1.

I have uploaded a word file. You will notice that I have four columns and four rows in my table.

I have data in all the four columns and three rows. In the Fourth Column in the last cell, I clicked on the Layout tab of the Table tools Tab on the ribbon.

I chose Formula and when it gave me something like =Sum(ABOVE) I deleted the