Repeating Formulas

[Guest]

This should be really easy, I am just terrible with excel.

I want to set up a personal finance database. It is a very easy worksheet
that just looks like this
A B C
1| Date | Change | Result |
2| Initial 0 500
3| 5/24/06 30 530
4| 5/25/06 -45 495

So on and so forth.
Now for C3 I wrote =SUM(C2,B3) and it gave me the right answer. However, how
do I make it so that every cell in the C column it always adds the number
above it to the number in the cell before it, without having to write the
individual equation in every cell?

 

[CLR]

Just Copy cell C3 and paste it to the cells below.........
Or, select C3 and left-click on the black square in the lower right cornerof
C3 and drag down comulm C.........

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[Arvi Laanemets]

Hi

More logical will be:
Date Change Result
Initial 500 500
5/24/06 30 530
5/25/06 -45 495

Then into C2 enter the formula
=IF(A2="","",SUM(C1,B2))
, and copy it down for any reasonable amount of rows (the date check allows
you to have formulas in column C ready for input)