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By: Nick Brazzi course • 8h 13m 16s • 5,520 viewers • Course Transcript - [Voiceover] We're looking at a worksheet called AutoSum. And some of you may know, there's a button on the home tab, far right, called AutoSum, and also on the formulas tab, on the left hand side. Potentially larger here. We can use this in a lot of situations. I'm about to put in a total here.

Now I certainly could type equal S-U-M, and put this in manually. Highlight all the data, press return, and nothing wrong with that, but it's going to be a lot faster with this button, and there is a keystroke shortcut as well. Let's first use the button. You can use it either on the formulas tab or the home tab, it's makes no difference. When you click the button here, it shows you what it's about to do. If that looks good, you can just press return. It's all done.

Select “Import from another program or file” and “Next.” 4. Select “Browse” to locate the file to import. Leave “Comma Separated Values” as the selection and “Next.” 5.

Sometimes it can be made faster. I'm going to undo this, control Z. And this time, highlight the data and press AutoSum.

Total appears immediately. Similarly, right here, AutoSum. You might have a situation where you've got some • Practice while you learn with exercise files.