How To Fix SUM Function in Excel - 2578

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This video has been published on Mar 17, 2023.
How to Fix the SUM function in Excel.
How to tell what is included in the SUM function in Excel.
Edit what is being summed.
Why is there a green triangle on my SUM function in Excel?
Formula Omits Adjacent Cells in Excel.
Update Formula to include cells in Excel.

Today, you have a SUM in Excel which appears to be too small for the numbers you are adding up. Use the F2 key to figure out what numbers are in the sum.

One solution is to drag the range to include many blank cells.
But another solution is to convert the range to a Table so the Sum will automatically expand as more numbers are added to the table.

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Table of Contents
(0:00) Sum is too small
(0:13) Green triangle in Excel
(0:24) F2 to edit cell in Excel
(0:30) Dragging range to include more cells
(0:47) Expanding range with Ctrl+T Table
(1:10) Wrap-up
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Transcript of the video:
Fix the Sum in Excel. How to fix the Excel sum.
Or how to determine what cells are being summed. This just doesn't look right.
There's 10 weeks and we're only at 406,000? And what's that green triangle?
Click on the cell, the green triangle.
This little yellow thing says update the formula to include cells. Formula omits adjacent cells.
I'm not just going to let them fix it, I'm going to take a look.
I'm going to press F2. Ah, shoot, see that blue range?
We must have written this formula back when we only had seven weeks of data.
Now you could fix it here, but you're going to continue to have a problem.
Or you could just make the range really, really large, like larger than 52 cells, so no matter what, you'll get all the data.
But another way to go, have the range be exactly the amount of data you have today. On the home tab, click format as table.
Doesn't matter what format you use.
And then the beautiful thing, as I get a new row in the table, let's give it 150,000.
When I press enter, you see the total automatically updated. It will grow to extend with the table.
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