suming a column exlucding the first cell

gt9147a

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This is something I have been curious about. A lot of tables I create have columns of data which I sum at the top of the column. The amount of data in the column changes over time.

I know that if I put my sum in another column I could use sum(A:A), but I want the total to appear in cell a1.

Since I don't know how much data I will have in the column because I add to it, I currently just use sum(a2:a60000). So far I have never gotten to a60000, so this works out ok. But is there a way to tell excel to sum the entire column excluding cell a1?
 
gt9147a said:
Can you explain how this function goes about figuring out the end of my range of data? I have tried using the help, but don't really understand how it works.

SUM(A2:INDEX(A:A,MATCH(9.99999999999999E307,A:A),0))
Hi gt9147a:

9.99999999999999E+307 is the largest number that can be entered in a cell,

=MATCH(9.99999999999999E+307,A:A)

locates the row number of the last number entered in column A, and

INDEX(A:A,MATCH(9.99999999999999E307,A:A),0) ... with or without ,0

references the last numeric entry in column A.
 
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