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Old 12-10-2016, 07:21 PM
Seamus Sean Seamus Sean is offline Adding adjacent cells and having the sum appear in two separate places Windows 10 Adding adjacent cells and having the sum appear in two separate places Office 2016
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In the example, I'd like to keep a record of expenses. I'd like to apply the same formula of adding the amounts in two cells and having their sum appear in two separate places. I'd like to format about 50 rows to follow this. I'd like the cells to remain blank until an amount is entered in them to be added.
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Hi and welcome
if the sum appears in A3, you will not be able to enter data there in the future without the formula disappearing
What are you trying to do exactly ?
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You can do this:
C2 = IF(OR(A2="",B2=""),"",SUM(A2:B2))

A3 = IF(C2="","",C2)

then you just copy the formula down.

P.S. I would personally avoid using IF for trivial condition like that since it can get messy when you nest an IF inside another IF, but this one seems simple enough.
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Thanks for your reply. This exercise is to determine a way to do a simple horizontal addition problem where, for example, a current expense would be entered in cell B2 that would be added to the previous total expenditures which would be located in A2. We'd like the sum of the two to automatically appear in cell C3, by simply tabbing into it. We'd also like that total to also automatically appear in cell A3 where it would become the new "total expenditure", and it would be added to the next expense....and so on.
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Old 12-11-2016, 10:34 PM
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Thanks Mr. Onion. That accomplished what we were trying to do! It might take a while to digest what you've suggested, but now we have a place to start.
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