Get totals quickly without creating formulas

- [Instructor] I've just opened this worksheet. … I'm trying to get some information out of it quickly. … I've got a meeting coming up in 20 minutes or so. … First order of business might be, … I'll press Control + End just to get some scope here. … This is 742 rows. … I'll press Control + Home back to the upper left corner. … But I need more information than that. … So I'm going to click on column A first of all. … So then I know how many people's names are in this list, … because in the status bar at the bottom … of the screen we see Count 742. … What that really means is 742 cells in column A have data. … We'll subtract one for that heading. … So there's 741 names here. … I'm a little curious about some other information here too. … Hire Date, can I get anything out of this? … Let's click column A and again go to that status bar. … Average hire date, well that doesn't interest me much, … but off to the right and not obvious at first, … minimum hire date. … The person who's been here the longest …