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smithdan
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Jan 27, 2023
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How to show autosum when filtering data? (Office 365 for Mac)

I just updated from Excel 2008 to MS365. Yes, a huge leap, I know!   My 2008 spreadsheets had a fixed/frozen row at top that I can use to FILTER my data. For example, I could click on the "clients"...
  • PeterBartholomew1's avatar
    Jan 27, 2023

    smithdan 

    Your first concern will be to get your existing spreadsheets up and going but, once that is done, there are many opportunities for refactoring the solutions to make then more transparent or flexible.  For example rather than hiding rows using a filter (rather like playing a baby game of peek-a-boo) it is now possible to build a new range containing the filtered records by using the FILTER function to extract the data.  CHOOSECOLS can be used to select any particular field you wish and SUM would produce a total.

     

    Since the range will be dynamic, a totals row at the bottom will get in the way so it is quite common to place the totals at the top of the table.  Otherwise VSTACK will allow the totals row to be placed at the foot of the table but in such a way that it moves as the table resizes.

     

    Don't let what you already know get in the way of what you could achieve.

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