It gets a total of the values in the cells that are selected or values that are listed in the function. It is a very commonly used function as you need to do a lot of adding in a spreadsheet. There are lots of ways of using it. You could use a cell range like this:
=SUM(A2:A10)
You can use individual cells:
=SUM(A2, A12, A14,B10)
You can use actual values:
=SUM(10,34,20)
You can use it mixing any of those:
=SUM(23,A3:A65,C10,D40)
You can use the clipboard in Excel. It is a facility as opposed to a traditional function, like the SUM function or AVERAGE or MAX and other functions that are built in to Excel.
SUMIFS was new in Excel 2007.
If you are using Microsoft Word Excel then you could just use the Auto Sum.
Assuming you're using Microsoft Excel, select the entire column by clicking and dragging with the mouse, then press the AutoSum button (looks like Σ).
The SUM function.
If by the top function, you mean the most commonly used one, that is probably the SUM function.
The sum of 7 and 4 is 11, whether in an Excel spreadsheet or anywhere else. In Excel the formula would be =SUM(4,7) or =4+7 or =(B12+B13) if the values 7 and 4 were in cells B12 and B13.
You type an equals sign into the formula box, type in the sum you want to do using the cell references (coordinates) then click enter
The representation of SUM is the capital Greek letter SIGMA (Σ).
formula's of excel =sum(+_/*) =count(if) =today() =now() by' (rubab)
To divide the sum of a data set by the number of values is called the "mean" function of the data set. It is called the AVERAGE function in Excel.
The SUMIFS function first appeared in Excel 2007. The previous version, Excel 2003, did not have it.