For instance, 3 bags full, 1 for the master, 1 for the dame and 1 for the little boy who lives down the lane.'¦will give 6 as the result. Exceptions are currency symbols, periods and commas, which it considers when they are a part of a number. The Calculate command ignores any text that's not a number. For instance, adding immediate rows or column of figures. If you select a series of numbers without an explicit addition operator, by default the Calculate command will add them up and display the sum. The Calculate operation works with six operators '“ The result is also automatically copied to the clipboard and can be pasted in any application. The result is displayed briefly in the status bar. Select the row/column of numbers and click on the icon. The Calculate icon becomes active (green) when you select the numbers for the computation. Click on Add to include it on the Quick Access Toolbar. Scroll down the list of commands and select Calculate. On the right hand pane, under Choose commands from, drop down and select All Commands. Here it is'¦Ĭlick on the Office Button and then click Word Options to open up the options box. It also lets us copy the result to the clipboard and paste it anywhere else.īy default the Calculate command is not on the Ribbon but following a few simple steps, it can be easily brought to the fore. The Calculate tool helps a lot when we have to work on a lot of numbers. Hidden under the layers of customizable commands is the Calculate tool. It turns out that all this while there's a Word calculations tool for the job. Though it's a short journey, copy-pasting is still a job. In the early days, I used to head towards my neighborly Excel program to do the math. The only effort that's required is to select the column of numbers. This feature is immensely helpful when you are working with a column of numbers as tall as the Eiffel Tower.

All we have to do is type in the numbers and presto, the calculations are done for us and displayed in the status bar. But feeding in the numbers and tapping the keys is so much work.

The second way is of course to use a calculator. Of all the Microsoft Office suite applications, I use MS Word the most.įor keeping tabs on numbers and crunching them though, it's destination Excel for me.

Didn't know it had one? Well, I also thought it went missing when I started out with MS Word 2007.

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