Hello, I am new to Excel and I need help with creating formulas. I am trying to create a few formulas that will perform simple mathematical operations on data contained in any given row of the spreadsheet. I think I have figured out how to create a formula if I specify exactly which cells I want to perform mathematical operations on (i.e., entering "=A2+B2" into cell C2), but what I really need is to create universal formulas that, for any given row, will sum the values of column A and column B of that same row (i.e, cell CX=AX+BX, where X could be any single given row). For Row 5, for example, the formula would be C5=A5+B5, but since entering a new formula into each cell one by one wouldn't save me much/any time compared to just calculating the sums manually, I am wondering if/how I can create a general formula that will leave the row undefined and just perform mathematical operations on two or more columns which I specify, for any given row in the spreadsheet. In other words, I want to associate with column C a formula that, for any given row, will sum the values in columns A and B of that same given row. Can anyone tell me how to do that?
Thank you very much for any help you can give me.
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