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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Calculating Cell Totals in Tables</title>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3147400" role="heading" level="1"><variable id="calculate_intable"><link href="text/swriter/guide/calculate_intable.xhp">Calculating the Sum of a Series of Table Cells</link>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154243" role="listitem">Choose <emph>Table - Insert Table</emph>, and insert a table with one column and more than one row into a text document.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154203" role="listitem">Type a number in each cell of the column, but leave the last cell in the column empty.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154222" role="listitem">Place the cursor in the last cell of the column, and then click the <item type="menuitem">Sum</item> icon on the <item type="menuitem">Table Bar</item>.<br/>The
               <item type="menuitem">Formula Bar</item> appears with the entry "=sum".</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147775" role="listitem">Click in the first cell of the series you want to sum up, drag to the final cell, and then release.<br/>$[officename] inserts a formula for calculating the sum of the values in the current column.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150507" role="listitem">Press Enter, or click <emph>Apply</emph> in the Formula bar. <br/>The sum of the values in the current column is entered in the cell.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150533" role="paragraph">If you enter a different number anywhere in the column, the sum is updated as soon as you click in the last column cell.</paragraph>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155533" role="paragraph">Similarly, you can also quickly calculate the sum of a row of numbers.</paragraph>

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