I am a teacher wanting to sum grades by row, not column.
I've tried dragging the black plus sign down as videos indicate.
No luck...
It is very time intensive to do this by hand when I know there has to be a simply way.
please and thank you--
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
If you want to sum a row, select the cell where you want the answer, then type the equal sign ("="), then the function you want (in your case "sum(", include the open paerenthesis, click the row header (the number on the very left):
they type the close parenthesis:
In this example :
A7=SUM(5:5)
this is shorthand for.... select cell A7, then type (or copy and paste from here) the formula:
=SUM(5:5)
you can also use the "quick" method which is:
1) select the row
2) drag the sum tag from the quick caluclations from the bar at the bottom to th ecell where you want it:
Thank you so very much! I am a college teacher with over 100 student grades to total.
I used the simplified 'drag' of the sum and it worked great!
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