Let’s say you have data in a worksheet in various ranges, and you want sum up each range at the bottom.
Something like this:

How to do all this one shot?
Simple. We use multi-select & ALT=
- Select all the cells where you need autosum, one at a time using CTRL+Click
- Press ALT=
- Done!
See the demo aside.
Do more with CTRL
If you think multi-select is only useful for bulk formattting, think again. Here are few awesome CTRL+Click tricks. (Say that again three times quickly.)
Note: We discussed a similar problem almost 2.5 years ago here – Sporadic totals in Excel.














One Response to “How to compare two Excel sheets using VLOOKUP? [FREE Template]”
Maybe I missed it, but this method doesn't include data from James that isn't contained in Sara's data.
I added a new sheet, and named the ranges for Sara and James.
Maybe something like:
B2: =SORT(UNIQUE(VSTACK(SaraCust, JamesCust)))
C2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,SaraCust,SaraPaid,"Missing")
D2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,JamesCust, JamesPaid,"Missing")
E2: =IF(ISERROR(C2#+D2#),"Missing",IF(C2#=D2#,"Yes","No"))
Then we can still do similar conditional formatting. But this will pull in data missing from Sara's sheet as well.