Hi,


This may sound simple but how do you format a Cell so that when you add an additional figure it is added to the one already there,for example a row containing a cell for miscellaneous items which can not be summed with anything else.

ie cell contains the figure £23.89 and i want to ad £7.87 to this,is there a way to just highlight the existing figure/cell,type the additional amount and let excel do the calculation.At the moment i am doing the calculation manually and adding the result to the cell.

Hope this makes sense

Mark

Enter 7.87 in an empty cell
copy
select the target cell
Right click - Paste special
Check Add
OK
( I agree that is a long-winded way to do things)

Alternatively, so that you can continue to see the component parts of the cell value in the formula bar, simply insert a '=' sign before the first # (you might even make this a habit for the initial data entry), then insert a '+' sign followed by the second value. You can keep inserting '+' (or '-') signs followed by values as required.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]