LOL ... you really do need to look at Excel ... perhaps embedding a portion of a spreadsheet in the Word document will do what you want in the way of formatting and what you want in the way of calculation. Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DansAttic@xxxxxxx > Sent: 15 November 2005 21:13 > To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mso] Hmm..another MS Word number-calculating question > > OK, so I now have the numbers in my Word table columns > tallying perfectly, thanks to Anne's advice. But now, I have > another issue: > > I have 2 columns with numbers, one is for daily numbers that > are added after the previous days numbers are cleared, and > the second is for a perpetual tally of all daily numbers (in > other words, all the new daily numbers added to the first > column each day must be added into the perpetual tally in > the second column, which will keep growing every day forever). > > My question is this: Is there a way I can set the rows up so > that when I enter the new daily number to the column in the > first row, they will auto-calculate into the perpetual tally > in that row? In other words, if the perpetual tally for that > row is up to 500, and today's daily number for that row is > 20, I would like, when adding "20" to the daily number cell > in that row, for the perpetual number in that row to > auto-change to "520." > > Does anyone know if this is possible? > > Thank you much!! > > Dan > ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************