Bird: Thanks for your suggestion. I had not been to that particular page
before. The only think I gained from it though, was that I can press
cntrl + F9 to enter my formula instead of clicking on Formula. At the
end of the day, I still can't make the simple addition formula work.
Here is my original post:
I am trying to design a template for receipts with a math formula
always there: Subtotal, multiply times % of sales tax, then the
grand total. When I used Lotus WordPro this was fairly easy,
but in msWord 2007, Vista I haven't figured it out. I've tried the
"Insert" tab and equation. Also, the "Layout" tab with Formula.
Formula works one time, but it's not there in the template, the
next time I want to make a receipt. Thank you.
I'll be more spicific about what I'm doing. I have a Word 2007 document in which I have imported my own logo, in the top center.
In the upper left and upper right
I have rectangles in which to put a person's name, address, the date, etc.
Below that I have build a table with 2 columns & 10 rows. Cell B7 is my subtotal cell. There I would like the sum of cells B1 - B6 to appear. In B8
I would like to have the 6% sales tax of B7 appear. In B9 I would like to have the sum of B8 and B9 appear. When I press cntl + F9 the curly brackets appear and I type =sum(above) in them - then I save that formula and that is all I ever see. When I enter numbers in cells B1 through B6, they never show up in B7. Just the {=sum(above)}
is visible there. Thank you much for your help.