Hi
We are a bunch of horsebetting people that has made a calc in Excel to keep
track of how much we pay each week. I have a little problem that I want to
solve. I want to for example have the sum of all that we paid in A1 and be
able to add money to that sum, not by adding by hand, just getting it from
another cell.
Do you know the best way to do that?

Kjell Olsson Sweden
PS. Excuse me for my bad English

In A1:

=SUM(range of cells you want to add)

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Regards,
Dave


"Tjoken" wrote:

Hi
We are a bunch of horsebetting people that has made a calc in Excel to keep
track of how much we pay each week. I have a little problem that I want to
solve. I want to for example have the sum of all that we paid in A1 and be
able to add money to that sum, not by adding by hand, just getting it from
another cell.
Do you know the best way to do that?

Kjell Olsson Sweden
PS. Excuse me for my bad English

Kjell

Sounds like you want an "accumlator" cell.

You can have a cumulative total in a cell if you have a
separate source cell for adding a new total to the original.

Use at your own risk. I am Posting this just to show you how it can
be done, not as a good solution. You would be much better off to
have another column so you can keep track of past entries.

Goes like this: =IF(CELL("address")="$C$4",C4+D4,D4)

Enter this in cell D4 and then in ToolsOptionsCalculation check
Iterations and set to 1.

Now when you change the number in C4, D4 will accumulate.

Note 1. If C4 is selected and a calculation takes place anywhere in
the Application D4 will update even if no new number is entered in
C4. NOT GOOD.

Note 2. This operation is not recommended because you will have no
"paper trail" to follow. Any mistake in entering a new number in C4
cannot be corrected. NOT GOOD.

To clear out the accumulated total in D4 and start over, select D4
and EditEnter.

Check out Laurent Longre's MoreFunc.xla. Has a Function RECALL
which does what you want without the re-calculation problem, but
again there is no "paper trail" for back-checking in case of errors
in data input.

http://longre.free.fr/english/func_cats.htm

Having said that, check out J.E. McGimpsey's site for VBA methods.

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


Gord Dibben Excel MVP


On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:06:11 -0700, Tjoken
wrote:

Hi
We are a bunch of horsebetting people that has made a calc in Excel to keep
track of how much we pay each week. I have a little problem that I want to
solve. I want to for example have the sum of all that we paid in A1 and be
able to add money to that sum, not by adding by hand, just getting it from
another cell.
Do you know the best way to do that?

Kjell Olsson Sweden
PS. Excuse me for my bad English