I don't think so. You can use cell ranges in forumlat fields. For example,
say you want to sum column a rows 1 trough 5 in cell b1.

In b1, put the field {=sum(a1:a5)}

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Greg Maxey/Word MVP
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tj3993 wrote:
I'm trying to sum a table column based on information contained in
another column. Does Word have a function similar to the SUMIF
function in Excel?