[nabs-l] Excel question

Justin Young jty727 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 19:41:49 UTC 2010


I tried your idea and the problem is it doesn't give me the number it
just says "#value.

On 12/2/10, Joe Orozco <jsorozco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Justin,
>
> This is a cheater's method, but see if it works.  Let's say you have 12 in
> A1, and 12 in A2.  Now, in A3, type:
>
> =sum(a1:a2)
>
> When you leave that cell, you will see that Excel will display the result,
> 24.  I hope that helps.
>
> Joe
>
> "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
>
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> Hey to All!
>
> I hope your ends of your semesters are going swimmingly.  Before I
> asked a question about excel which was very helpful.  I have another.
> I'm not sure if anyone would know this answer, but I'm not familiar
> enough with excel yet to know how to do this.  I will admitt I'm
> learning from you guys so its very appreciated.  What I would like to
> do is set up where it does the equations for me.  Where you could
> hypethically enter like 1500 in one cell and the cell under that enter
> like 256.75 and the cell below that gives you the answer
> automatically.  What I've done is gone up into the formula menu and
> hit sum and just manually entered the numbers which works, but after
> this it won't self subtract anything I add.  Meaning any addition
> figures which need subtracting.  If anyone knows a way to do this
> using JAWS I would greatly appreciate any advice you have!
>
> Thanks as always
> Justin
>
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