How to Get the Sum of a Column in a Google Drive Spreadsheet

John John (304)
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This is a very simple guide on how to get the sum of a column in a Google Docs spreadsheet. If you have a list of numbers you want to add, here's how.

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In Google Drive spreadsheets and many other spreadsheets you can add a column of numbers by placing the following code in a cell:

=SUM(C6:C12)

This will take all the numbers in cells C6-C12, add them, and put the sum in the cell where you placed the code.

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Michael Michael (175)
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To save a PDF as a Google Doc, it must first be converted via Google Drive. We're actually impressed by how easily PDFs become Google Docs and how much of the formatting gets retained.