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Performing calculations

Performing calculations - iBooks Author Tutorial

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Performing calculations

Now, although iBooks Author is no replacement for your favorite spreadsheet program, for doing your analysis, you can do some basic calculations with iBooks Author in your tables. In this case, we want our final column over here, the Complete Tour Price, to have a sum of all of the values from these other three columns. And to do that, we first need to select the table, click one time on the first cell, hold down the Shift key, and click on the third cell, in order to have all three of these cells selected. We can then create a sum of these cells by simply going over to the Table Inspector and clicking on the Format tab. Down in the Function section, click the drop down menu, and choose Sum. The new sum value is automatically added to the next column for us. That's a great way to create a sum. Let's go ahead and press Command Z on our keyboard to undo that, and let's look at another way we can accomplish the same thing. We can click one time on the cell to select it, and then we can…

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