Adding, subtract in Word

[geocsi]

In Word 5.1 it was easy to add or subtract a column of numbers bu
highlighting the column and pressing command + shift + =

Is there a way to do this in Word on Office 2003 for Mac?

Thanks.

G C

 

[Clive Huggan]

The capability is available in Word 2001, though not on a default menu, from
a "Tools Calculate" button. I don't have much knowledge of Word X -- give it
a try!

As in Word 5.1, this feature evaluates selected numbers as a mathematical
expression and displays the result in the status bar (and the result is also
in the clipboard, ready to be pasted where you want). You can select numbers
by Option-dragging as well as by selecting paragraphs, cells or lines. The
command is available via Tools menu -> Customize -> Commands tab [make sure
"Normal" is in the "Appears in" pop-down window at bottom left] -> click on
Tools in "Categories" scroll-box -> scroll to bottom of "Commands"
scroll-box (because the items are not in alphabetical order) -> click on
Tools Calculate -> drag to desired toolbar.

Word 2001 also has a more powerful feature for numbers in tables via the
Table menu -> Formula -- but if the column contains a blank cell, or a blank
paragraph mark in a cell, the feature doesn¹t work.

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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[geocsi]

Thank you very much. Your advice worked like a charm, although I'll
have to get used to calculating by mousing to the toolbar instead of
hitting a key combination and the equal key.

Thanks.

geocsi

-----Original Message-----
The capability is available in Word 2001, though not on a default menu, from
a "Tools Calculate" button. I don't have much knowledge of Word X -- give it
a try!

As in Word 5.1, this feature evaluates selected numbers as a mathematical
expression and displays the result in the status bar (and the result is also
in the clipboard, ready to be pasted where you want). You can select numbers
by Option-dragging as well as by selecting paragraphs, cells or lines. The
command is available via Tools menu -> Customize -> Commands tab [make sure
"Normal" is in the "Appears in" pop-down window at bottom left] -> click on
Tools in "Categories" scroll-box -> scroll to bottom of "Commands"
scroll-box (because the items are not in alphabetical order) -> click on
Tools Calculate -> drag to desired toolbar.

Word 2001 also has a more powerful feature for numbers in tables via the
Table menu -> Formula -- but if the column contains a blank cell, or a blank
paragraph mark in a cell, the feature doesn¹t work.

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
=========================================== =================
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further information so that a better answer can be provided. Good tips about
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for you to back up your Normal template and all your Word settings files?
(This should be on a medium other than the internal hard drive and, if you
also want to protect against theft and fire, stored in a different
building.)
=========================================== =================

In Word 5.1 it was easy to add or subtract a column of numbers bu
highlighting the column and pressing command + shift + =

Is there a way to do this in Word on Office 2003 for Mac?

Thanks.

G C

.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Geocsi,

You can assign a keyboard command to Tools Calculate if you like.
Command-click (right-click) on the Tools Calculate key and choose Properties
and then Keyboard.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

Thank you very much. Your advice worked like a charm, although I'll
have to get used to calculating by mousing to the toolbar instead of
hitting a key combination and the equal key.

Thanks.

geocsi

-----Original Message-----
The capability is available in Word 2001, though not on a default menu, from
a "Tools Calculate" button. I don't have much knowledge of Word X -- give it
a try!

As in Word 5.1, this feature evaluates selected numbers as a mathematical
expression and displays the result in the status bar (and the result is also
in the clipboard, ready to be pasted where you want). You can select numbers
by Option-dragging as well as by selecting paragraphs, cells or lines. The
command is available via Tools menu -> Customize -> Commands tab [make sure
"Normal" is in the "Appears in" pop-down window at bottom left] -> click on
Tools in "Categories" scroll-box -> scroll to bottom of "Commands"
scroll-box (because the items are not in alphabetical order) -> click on
Tools Calculate -> drag to desired toolbar.

Word 2001 also has a more powerful feature for numbers in tables via the
Table menu -> Formula -- but if the column contains a blank cell, or a blank
paragraph mark in a cell, the feature doesn¹t work.

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
=========================================== =================
* Please post all comments or follow-on questions to the newsgroup for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Before posting a question about a
topic, search Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group: *mac.office.word) --
it may have been comprehensively answered already.

* If you post a question, keep re-visiting the newsgroup for a few days
after the first response comes in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before
the best or complete solution is proposed, and sometimes you'll be asked for
further information so that a better answer can be provided. Good tips about
getting the best out of posting are at
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm

* Remove the uppercase letters from my address above if you need to send an
e-mail to me directly (although that would be exceptional). Please note
that e-mails with an attachment will be automatically rejected.

* If anyone is still reading down this far, here's a question: is it time
for you to back up your Normal template and all your Word settings files?
(This should be on a medium other than the internal hard drive and, if you
also want to protect against theft and fire, stored in a different
building.)
=========================================== =================

In Word 5.1 it was easy to add or subtract a column of numbers bu
highlighting the column and pressing command + shift + =

Is there a way to do this in Word on Office 2003 for Mac?

Thanks.

G C

.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Glad you got back on that -- because organizing a keystroke for "Tools
calculate" is no problem.

I allocated the keystroke Command-[equal sign] because of my well-ingrained
habits from Word 5.1a. It was pre-allocated to the "Subscript" command, but
I used it because I don't use keystrokes for subscript. (Maybe
Command-Shift-=, which you mention, was an alternative keystroke in 5.1a --
it's "Superscript" in Word 2001, which I use -- can't remember back that far
to 5.1a.)

Recent versions of Word are immensely flexible in the keyboard shortcut
department. Just hold down the Control key and click the Tools calculate
button, even if it's greyed out (or if you have a two-button mouse -- a good
idea because Office is so right-click-intensive -- just click on the right
button). In the menu that appears, select Properties -> click the "Keyboard"
button. I shortened the button's title to simply "Calculate" while I was
there.

BTW, if you have recently moved from 5.1, you'll find some interesting
material in my notes on the way I use Word, called "Bend Word to your Will",
available free at http://word.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm
-- they started out as rough notes I made when my mind was filled with 5.1
(and in many ways I wish it still was, only it's now bloated with 2001, to
which I moved); now the notes stand at 138 pages. I discuss keyboard
shortcuts in Word 2001 with equivalent 5.1a keystrokes shown, on page 51.

(If you *do* download "Bend Word to your Will", go back in a few weeks to
get the template, which contains most of the things I describe in my notes.
Don't download the present one -- I failed to amend one of the styles on a
custom toolbar in the template when I passed it on for uploading last week,
and it may be a few weeks before the correct template is uploaded.)

--Clive Huggan

=====================================================

Thank you very much. Your advice worked like a charm, although I'll
have to get used to calculating by mousing to the toolbar instead of
hitting a key combination and the equal key.

Thanks.

geocsi

-----Original Message-----
The capability is available in Word 2001, though not on a default menu, from
a "Tools Calculate" button. I don't have much knowledge of Word X -- give it
a try!

As in Word 5.1, this feature evaluates selected numbers as a mathematical
expression and displays the result in the status bar (and the result is also
in the clipboard, ready to be pasted where you want). You can select numbers
by Option-dragging as well as by selecting paragraphs, cells or lines. The
command is available via Tools menu -> Customize -> Commands tab [make sure
"Normal" is in the "Appears in" pop-down window at bottom left] -> click on
Tools in "Categories" scroll-box -> scroll to bottom of "Commands"
scroll-box (because the items are not in alphabetical order) -> click on
Tools Calculate -> drag to desired toolbar.

Word 2001 also has a more powerful feature for numbers in tables via the
Table menu -> Formula -- but if the column contains a blank cell, or a blank
paragraph mark in a cell, the feature doesn¹t work.

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
=========================================== =================
* Please post all comments or follow-on questions to the newsgroup for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Before posting a question about a
topic, search Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group: *mac.office.word) --
it may have been comprehensively answered already.

* If you post a question, keep re-visiting the newsgroup for a few days
after the first response comes in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before
the best or complete solution is proposed, and sometimes you'll be asked for
further information so that a better answer can be provided. Good tips about
getting the best out of posting are at
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm

* Remove the uppercase letters from my address above if you need to send an
e-mail to me directly (although that would be exceptional). Please note
that e-mails with an attachment will be automatically rejected.

* If anyone is still reading down this far, here's a question: is it time
for you to back up your Normal template and all your Word settings files?
(This should be on a medium other than the internal hard drive and, if you
also want to protect against theft and fire, stored in a different
building.)
=========================================== =================

In Word 5.1 it was easy to add or subtract a column of numbers bu
highlighting the column and pressing command + shift + =

Is there a way to do this in Word on Office 2003 for Mac?

Thanks.

G C

.

 

[geocsi]

Thank you again. Your guidance did the trick again. I'm heading for the
url on your notes asap.

Regards

Geocsi

-----Original Message-----
Glad you got back on that -- because organizing a keystroke for "Tools
calculate" is no problem.

I allocated the keystroke Command-[equal sign] because of my well- ingrained
habits from Word 5.1a. It was pre-allocated to the "Subscript" command, but
I used it because I don't use keystrokes for subscript. (Maybe
Command-Shift-=, which you mention, was an alternative keystroke in 5.1a --
it's "Superscript" in Word 2001, which I use -- can't remember back that far
to 5.1a.)

Recent versions of Word are immensely flexible in the keyboard shortcut
department. Just hold down the Control key and click the Tools calculate
button, even if it's greyed out (or if you have a two-button mouse -- a good
idea because Office is so right-click-intensive -- just click on the right
button). In the menu that appears, select Properties -> click the "Keyboard"
button. I shortened the button's title to simply "Calculate" while I was
there.

BTW, if you have recently moved from 5.1, you'll find some interesting
material in my notes on the way I use Word, called "Bend Word to your Will",
available free at http://word.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/ BendWord.htm
-- they started out as rough notes I made when my mind was filled with 5.1
(and in many ways I wish it still was, only it's now bloated with 2001, to
which I moved); now the notes stand at 138 pages. I discuss keyboard
shortcuts in Word 2001 with equivalent 5.1a keystrokes shown, on page 51.

(If you *do* download "Bend Word to your Will", go back in a few weeks to
get the template, which contains most of the things I describe in my notes.
Don't download the present one -- I failed to amend one of the styles on a
custom toolbar in the template when I passed it on for uploading last week,
and it may be a few weeks before the correct template is uploaded.)

--Clive Huggan

=========================================== ==========

Thank you very much. Your advice worked like a charm, although I'll
have to get used to calculating by mousing to the toolbar instead of
hitting a key combination and the equal key.

Thanks.

geocsi

-----Original Message-----
The capability is available in Word 2001, though not on a default menu, from
a "Tools Calculate" button. I don't have much knowledge of Word

X --
give it

a try!

As in Word 5.1, this feature evaluates selected numbers as a mathematical
expression and displays the result in the status bar (and the result

is
also

in the clipboard, ready to be pasted where you want). You can

select
numbers

by Option-dragging as well as by selecting paragraphs, cells or

lines.
The

command is available via Tools menu -> Customize ->

Commands
tab [make sure

"Normal" is in the "Appears in" pop-down window at bottom left]

->
click on

Tools in "Categories" scroll-box -> scroll to bottom of "Commands"
scroll-box (because the items are not in alphabetical order) ->

click
on

Tools Calculate -> drag to desired toolbar.

Word 2001 also has a more powerful feature for numbers in

tables via
the

Table menu -> Formula -- but if the column contains a blank cell,

or
a blank

paragraph mark in a cell, the feature doesn¹t work.

-- Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia

===========================================
=================

* Please post all comments or follow-on questions to the

newsgroup
for the

benefit of others who may be interested. Before posting a

question
about a

topic, search Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group: *mac.office.word) --
it may have been comprehensively answered already.

* If you post a question, keep re-visiting the newsgroup for a few days
after the first response comes in. Sometimes it takes a few

responses
before

the best or complete solution is proposed, and sometimes you'll

be
asked for

further information so that a better answer can be provided. Good

tips
about

getting the best out of posting are at
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm

* Remove the uppercase letters from my address above if you

need to
send an

e-mail to me directly (although that would be exceptional). Please note
that e-mails with an attachment will be automatically rejected.

* If anyone is still reading down this far, here's a question: is it time
for you to back up your Normal template and all your Word

settings
files?

(This should be on a medium other than the internal hard drive

and, if
you

also want to protect against theft and fire, stored in a different
building.)

===========================================
=================

In Word 5.1 it was easy to add or subtract a column of numbers bu
highlighting the column and pressing command + shift + =

Is there a way to do this in Word on Office 2003 for Mac?

Thanks.

G C

.

.