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MS Office 101

To Sum It Up…

Here's the scenario: you're working in Excel and you've got a string of numbers that you need to find out their sum.

What do you do? You could go to a blank cell and write a formula to find the sum. This is a good way if you need to keep the total for future reference. But what if you just need to quickly see the sum, with no intentions of keeping the number? Is there a faster way?

Of course and you're not going to believe how easy it is.

All you need to do is to highlight the cells containing the data to be totaled.

You have the sum right now - you just never noticed it.

Take a look in the status bar across the bottom of the Excel program. (If you don't have a status bar across the bottom then go to the View menu and check the Status Bar option.)

Look at the center of the status bar. See it?

There it is, all summed up!

Office Tip of the Day

Printing What's Needed And Only What's Needed

Have you ever noticed that MS Excel automatically tries to print everything on your worksheet?

This works wonderfully for most things we do, but what about the times when you only need part of a worksheet printed? Or, what do you do when you have a large worksheet containing many calculations that feed to one particular section of the sheet and you only want to print that small section? (Yes, I'm aware that you could have set up the workbook so that the part to be printed was on a separate worksheet - but what if it's not? We all know it can be a huge pain to move everything.)

Well, your solution to the dilemma is to set the Print Area.

Print area?

Yes, Print Area.

Basically it's a specific area in a worksheet to be printed, ignoring everything else on the sheet.

So, how do we actually set the print area?

It's as easy as 1, 2 and … well, we really don't need 3. So how about 1 and 2?

1. Highlight the cells to be printed.

2. Go to the File menu, Print Area, and select Set Print Area from the sub-menu.

That's it. You're done.

Now when you print, you'll get only the information in the cells you selected.

(A quick note here - I did try using the Control key to select separate sections for the print area. What I found was that Excel printed each section on a separate sheet of paper.)

OK, so now you know how to print just part of a worksheet. Let's say that you used this little trick to print part of a worksheet and now you need to print the entire thing. How do we get it all back?

Easy enough, you don't even have to highlight the cells!

Simply go to the File menu, Print Area, and select Clear Print Area from the sub-menu.

Poof! Back to where you started.

If only all things in life came with such short instructions!