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Summary: Sum columns or rows in an Excel spreadsheet by highlighting the row or column and clicking auto sum. Add columns or rows in an Excel spreadsheet with tips from an assistant certified public accountant in this free video on Microsoft Excel.
Amar Enhsaihan is an assistant certified public accountant (CPA) and works with Excel applications everyday on his job.read more
"Hi I'm Amar Enhsaihan I'm going to show you how to sum a row or a column in Excel. Here in my example I have these values in rows and and this row is in columns. So at first I'm going to show you how to sum a row. Here you click this auto sum button on your tool bar, and it automatically does it for you. You click enter and it asks, it looks like you are managing at least, no. So that's how you sum a row. You can also type that information in if you wanted to. Just type equal sign, sum, open parenthesis, and then you enter this cell reference and then close the parenthesis. Now I'm going to show you how to sum a column. You go to tool bar and you click auto sum, click enter and you are done. You can also type this information in if you wanted to. And that's how you auto sum a row or a column in Excel. I'm Amar Enhsaihan thank you for watching."
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