No, he's thinking of Tools | Calculate, as suggested by a previous poster
(see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ToolsCalculate.htm). This command
puts the total in the status bar and on the Clipboard. It works for tabbed
columns as well as table columns, and (most significantly) it works despite
empty rows.

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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You're thinking of Excel.



"Blanche" wrote in message
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In a previous position I was sure that there was a way to add columns in
a
table by highlighting the column or rows of figures and the total would
show
accross the bottom of the window bar. Has anyone ever heard of this?