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Adding numbers manually

Adding numbers manually - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Adding numbers manually

If you completed your expense report worksheet from the movie on entering data, then you should have a worksheet that looks something like this. I want to show you how to add numbers. Now, adding numbers is probably the most common calculation that you could do in Excel. And it's so common that there are whole bunch of different ways to do it, probably about a half dozen different ways. So let's start off simple. I'm going to show you the basic manual way. I kind of think of it as the Cherry Pick method. So we want to start off by adding across Row 6. We want to add the numbers here for San Francisco. So click on cell E6, and in E6 we want to say add this number and that number and that number. Well, we know that every formula, every function starts off with an equal sign. So type in an equal sign. As soon as you do, you're in Editing Mode, and you can see the toolbar is mostly grayed out because we're editing. So we want to click that first number here. Here click that 6100. As soon…

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