Join Dennis Taylor for an in-depth discussion in this video Use column or row references to create dynamic formulas, part of Excel Tips Weekly.
- [Instructor] When you're writing formulas … that refer to data in columns, … sometimes it will make sense to refer to the entire column, … particularly if it's a large list … like the one we're looking at here. … It's about 750 rows of data. … I want to know what the total compensation amount is. … They're coming out of column H. … Now I can click column H … and see that number in the status bar at the bottom, … but I want it on the screen at all times. … If you don't see that number, by the way, … right-click on the status bar … and consider checking not only some, … but these other buttons as well. … Now I'm going to write a formula right here. … I'm not going to type equal S-U-M. … Nothing wrong with that, of course. … I'll press alt + equal, that's going to make it simpler, … but now instead of typing in H2, … colon H750 or whatever it might be, … or highlighting all these cells from here downward, … I'll simply click column H. … That means add up all the data in column H. … Enter, we're all done. …
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