Sounds like you want to have your "total" cell as an accumulator.

It is possible but not easy to error-check because you would have no "paper
trail" for checking.

Best to use an extra column...........you have many of them on a sheet.

Use that column for keeping a running total based on ins and outs.

I f you must accumulate in one cell see John McGimpsey's site but heed the
caveats.

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/accumulator.html


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:47:01 -0800, darren
wrote:

I am trying to keep an inventory of ware house. How do i have my "total" (say
1000 apples) in 1 column and another column have "recieved" (say i get 500
more apples). how do i get them to sum the added, and stay at 1500 apples, so
the next time when i get 200 more apples i can type in 200 and it goes to
1700. so on and so on. i basically need to get around the reoccurring
circle, but i can figure it out even when i enable it.