Comments on: Quick Excel Tip: The FASTEST Way to Sum Numbers http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/05/22/quick-excel-tip-the-fastest-way-to-sum-numbers/ Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Wilson http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/05/22/quick-excel-tip-the-fastest-way-to-sum-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-100971 Tim Wilson Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:20:41 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=92#comment-100971 Louise - I'm not aware of any such limitation. I just generated a 5,000-row spreadsheet with random numbers in column A, and a SUM formula in row 5001 matched up exactly with the technique described here. If it's easy to make the data in your spreadsheet non-sensitive, feel free to email it to me at tim at and I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can figure out what's going on. Louise – I’m not aware of any such limitation. I just generated a 5,000-row spreadsheet with random numbers in column A, and a SUM formula in row 5001 matched up exactly with the technique described here. If it’s easy to make the data in your spreadsheet non-sensitive, feel free to email it to me at tim at and I’ll be happy to take a look and see if I can figure out what’s going on.

]]> By: Louise http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/05/22/quick-excel-tip-the-fastest-way-to-sum-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-100896 Louise Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:06:04 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=92#comment-100896 Okay...but is there a limit on the number of rows I can highlight and get a sum for? My spreadsheet has 5,000 rows and when I highlight them all, I get 395,654,070 but the formula adding all the cells yields 413,306,023. Okay…but is there a limit on the number of rows I can highlight and get a sum for? My spreadsheet has 5,000 rows and when I highlight them all, I get 395,654,070 but the formula adding all the cells yields 413,306,023.

]]> By: Rob http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/05/22/quick-excel-tip-the-fastest-way-to-sum-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-98154 Rob Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:55:50 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=92#comment-98154 Thanks for the tip. I have been using this method to quickly get sums for awhile now, however I used this article to figure out why my status bar went away. I use this feature so many times during the day that it really got annoying that I suddenly wasn't able to use it. Thanks for the tip. I have been using this method to quickly get sums for awhile now, however I used this article to figure out why my status bar went away. I use this feature so many times during the day that it really got annoying that I suddenly wasn’t able to use it.

]]> By: janet http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/05/22/quick-excel-tip-the-fastest-way-to-sum-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-97348 janet Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:15:32 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=92#comment-97348 So awesome! After spending so much time trying to decipher online "how-to" sites, this is a lifesaver! So awesome! After spending so much time trying to decipher online “how-to” sites, this is a lifesaver!

]]> By: Douglas Nidoi http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2008/05/22/quick-excel-tip-the-fastest-way-to-sum-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Douglas Nidoi Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:16:24 +0000 http://www.gilliganondata.com/?p=92#comment-604 Honestly, ...I cant believe could have missed that! All these long dreary years of using Excel. thanks Honestly, …I cant believe could have missed that!

All these long dreary years of using Excel.

thanks

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