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Dee has attended:
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When i have a table in word - how do i enter a calculation into it?

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Dear Dee

Thank you for attending Word 2007 Advanced course!! I hope you enjoyed the course and benefited from it.

If you want to perform calculation in a table then you have to follow these steps:

1.Create you table.

2. Click on the cell you want to perform calculation on.

3. On the Table Tools contextualized tab please click on the Layout Tab

4. Click on the fx Formula button on the Top right hand corner.

please note that if there are any numbers on the left hand side or above the selected cell then you will note that the Formula dialog box will say =SUM(ABOVE) or =SUM(LEFT).

But if you want to any other calculation such as Multiplying the two cells or adding 5% to an existing cell then you have to imagine that your table is like Excel with A,B,C,D on the top and 1,2,3,4, on the Left hand side and then the formula dialog box you have to enter the formula such as =B6*B7

One thing to remember about performing calculation in Word table is that the result doesn't get updated automatically if you edit any numbers in the future. You have to right-click on the result field and then choose update field or press F9.

I hope this has answered your query.

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to provide you the solution for it!!

Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003
MCAS Master Instructor 2007
MCT

Wed 6 May 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.

 

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