Summing only the highlighed cells in a column

[RJSads]

I am hightlighting certain items in a column(Dollar format). I need to sum
only the items that are highlighed. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks

 

[Bob Umlas]

You can look at the resulting total in the status bar toward the right;
You can assign a name to the selection then use =SUM(ThatName) somewhere.

 

[dlw]

if you want the sum in a cell, in that cell, type =sum( then start
<ctrl>clicking the cells you want sum, and the references will be created