Why doesn't WORD have a button for SUM(ABOVE)????????

You can easily make one.

1. Insert the formula anywhere (best in a table--would probably produce an
error message outside a table).

2. Select it and save it as an AutoText entry.

3. From here, you could of course insert it just as you would any AutoText
entry (with F3 or with AutoComplete if you give it a sensible name), but you
can also create a button if you really want to.

4. Open Tools | Customize.

5. On the Commands tab, select the AutoText category.

6. Find your SUM(ABOVE) AutoText entry in the Commands list and drag it to a
toolbar.

7. By default it will display text and won't have an icon, but you can
assign one of Word's built-in icons (right-click on the button and choose
Change Button Image) or design one yourself (right-click and choose Edit
Button Image). You'll also need to change the button display to "Default
Style" (which for toolbar buttons is an image only).

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"Dana W. Ciardi" wrote in message
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Thanks, Suzanne and Bob:

I WAS looking for the wrong term - finally found TABLEformat......

Also found autosum - I use that a lot. BUT - it also defaults to
SUM(LEFT).....

Why doesn't WORD have a button for SUM(ABOVE)????????

Dana


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
in message ...
Hi Dana,

See if you have a command named 'Autosum'.

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"Dana W. Ciardi" wrote in message
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Greg - thanks!! Do you know I NEVER saw that ALL Commands before!! Why
can't Word alphabetize everything???

I don't know about your list - but my "All Commands" list goes from
"FormShading" to "FrameProperties" - and NO "Formula." I even
looked at every single item in the l - o - n - g list - thinking it
might be called something else - nada! Not there!

Of course they have EVERYTHING else on that list - why can't they have
SUM(ABOVE) and FORMULA???

Sometimes Excel is overkill and all you need to do is to sum a column of
numbers (in Word).

Oh, well.............
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Let us know if this helped you,

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