Autosum - Sigma or Epsilon

[Michael]

Hi Folks - Is the Autosum Sigma or Epsilon. I have seen conflicting info on
the 'net.

Thanks,

Michael

 

[Mike H]

Hi,

If you mean the symbol on the autosum button it's Sigma. Epsilon is E

Mike

 

[Gord Dibben]

It is upper case Sigma


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Robert Martim, Excel]

Mike

As Gord said, it is the upper case sigma. Upper case sigma is the summation
symbol in maths. Lower case Epsilon is normally used to denote the error
portion in a calculation such as regression.

You can check the Greek letters here and the use of Epsilon/sigma:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma

 

[Shane Devenshire]

Hi,

If you are using 2007, you can choose Insert, Symbol and in the Arial Font
set find and click on the Sigma sign you will see a description of it at the
bottom left of the dialog box "Greek Capital Letter Sigma". If you click on
the capital E in the area of greek letters you will see its description.
About 20 characters further along is the lower case e with an accent.