worksheet sum

[fuberator]

Hi

 

What is the syntax for summing a bunch of cells? Say I have numbers in B3, H4 and J8 for example. I can't do =SUM(B3+H4+J8), so what is the correct way?

 

Thank you 

[Pat Stanford]

If you just want a few cells you don't need the sum you can just add them up:   =B3+H4+J8

 

If you have a larger range you can specify the range by using two periods between the beginning and end of the range plus a Sum:    =SUM(A3..D3)

 

If you have a discontinuous (or continuous) range you can also use a comma as a separator in a Sum:    =SUM(B3, H4, J8)

 

Or you can combine the two styles:    =SUM(A3..D3, H8)

 

HTH

[fuberator]

thank you!

[MartinBlomberg]

I can't really understand why they don't stick to the Excel standard, I need to google this all the time.

[fuberator]

On 5/4/2022 at 4:00 PM, MartinBlomberg said:

I can't really understand why they don't stick to the Excel standard, I need to google this all the time.

 

could not agree more!

[Pat Stanford]

Do you realize that the VW worksheet is actually OLDER than Excel? So why didn't Excel adopt the VW standard (which I think was actually the Visicalc standard)?

[fuberator]

On 5/8/2022 at 9:39 PM, Pat Stanford said:

Do you realize that the VW worksheet is actually OLDER than Excel? So why didn't Excel adopt the VW standard (which I think was actually the Visicalc standard)?

 

 

Cosmic coincidence I was just watching this

 

  

  

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On 5/5/2022 at 2:00 AM, MartinBlomberg said:

I can't really understand why they don't stick to the Excel standard, I need to google this all the time.

Also VWs worksheet is so undocumented, sometimes things that should work just don't. I've got a long text file of solutions from working with it since ~2006.