easy one, thank you: =SUM()

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Hi. Hope you can help. I think this may be easy for you, but appreciated nonetheless!

When I drag down a column of numbers, say,

4
7
2
9

and then hit the "E" (Sum), the last item (in this example the 9) changes to "=SUM()", instead of calculating and putting the sum on the following empty cell.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks so much.

PS If it helps, I've noticed this for all other one-touch toolbar functions too (like "Average") and I've made sure the cells are formatted as numbers as opposed to text etc. I'm sure it's something simple, maybe a setting. Thank you!
 
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