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I have a table in a Word document that I've used for years. (I use Microsoft 365 in Windows 11.) I have a cell at the bottom that I use to total the figures in the column immediately above it. The field has worked so far, but today I added a new row to the table, and now the field doesn't sum correctly. It misses the value in the cell that's part of the new row.
For example: The field code reads "=SUM(e2:e13)". Column e holds the values I wish to sum. Cell e1 holds the column heading. Cells e2:e13 store the numeric values. I don't have any blank rows. What should I look for?
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Kindly disregard. My own fault for failing to count all the rows. I needed only to increase the number of rows in the formula--e2:e14). It's all good now.
As the AI reply menioned,
If the formula was intended to total only the cells above the result cell,
=SUM(ABOVE)is usually more reliable after row insertions than a fixed reference such as=SUM(E2:E13).
The Achilles' heel of that formula is that the "above" parameter stops looking if there's a blank cell in the column. More on this at https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/AppErrors/SumAboveIncorrect.htm.
Is e13 in the new row? Have you tried editing e13 to e14?
Word calculations don't update automatically like Excel. Normally doing a print preview will force an update and display the new total.
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