If you are unfamiliar with MS Excel it is a spreadsheet tool that does a variety of things to help with crunching numbers to printing charts to organizing data. Here are the simple steps you need to take in order to add 2 cells together and put the result in a 3rd cell.
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
1.
Open excel
2.
Type a number into any of the cells and hit the enter key. typed the number 17 in cell "A1". Letters represent the columns and numbers represent the rows.
3.
Type a second number in a different cell and hit the enter key. I entered the number 25 into cell "A2".
4.
In a blank cell (I chose cell "A3") type in the following: =(a1 a2)
The equal sign represents that you are about to perform a function. Inside the parenthesis are the cells that you want to perform this function on. So what this function says is: add cells "a1" and "a2" together and put the result of that calculation into the cell (in this case "a3") where I am typing this function.
Now hit enter after you typed in the function
The equal sign represents that you are about to perform a function. Inside the parenthesis are the cells that you want to perform this function on. So what this function says is: add cells "a1" and "a2" together and put the result of that calculation into the cell (in this case "a3") where I am typing this function.
Now hit enter after you typed in the function
Items needed
- Excel
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