Hello and thank you for your time.
I am surprised I was not able to find this answer already online, but I am using Microsoft Office Online and need to do calculations automatically in a separate tab on the results of a Microsoft Forms survey. I simply want to automatically sum together certain outputs of the form automatically using the Sum() function. For example let’s say I have text outputs form columns A and B, but I want to sum together the numeric outputs of C and D together as well as E and F together for each new entry. (To clarify this example, I am not looking to sum together all C and D entries together, but instead sum C and D together once for each row/each entry)
First I found that even though the answer is listed as a "Number" under the requirements of the Form, the output into the corresponding Excel sheet has a leading apostrophe, making this number into text. I was able to get around this but creating another tab and multiplying each cell by 1 to convert them into numbers.
I am able to do calculations with the numbers in this new tab however then I found that when a new submission to the Microsoft Form is completed, this adds a new row to the corresponding spreadsheet. Therefore my formula in the new tab of multiplying results by 1 skips this newly created row!
I then tried some dynamic array formulas just because those would grab results from a whole column so I thought that would negate the new row problem. For example I tried the "Unique()" formula to grab then values from each column of the auto-populated form tab, then I was going to multiply these by 1 if needed. However, the "Unique()" formula did not exist for Microsoft Online... Neither did the "Filter()" or "SortBy()"...
Can you please help me to create a tab that can run calculations automatically on the results generated by Microsoft Forms in another tab?