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How to enable or disable Auto Sum in Excel


Removing or disabling autosum in Excel can be done manually or using Excel VBA.

By default, autosum in Excel is enabled.

What happened if you receive an excel file which the sender has disabled the autosum for some obscure reason?

Well, not really obscure. Because some VBA developers claim that their application runs fine with the autosum disable on their program.

But what if you want to enable  autosum?

It’s quite tiring pressing F9 to refresh Excel in order for the sum to be calculated.

And to add burden, it’s 30 minutes before deadline and you need the excel file to be send out or else your phone will keep ringing and every time you answer the phone “Where is the file?”

Its 30 minutes before deadline, why in the world wait for 30 minutes before deadline and do they thing?

Well, it’s excel and hoping it will be a piece of cake to finish the work.

Okay let’s cut the crap and keep the business going.

You can disable or enable the AutoSum functionality of Excel either by VBA or just doing it manually.

To do it manually, you need to follow these steps below:

  • Click on File or the Ribbon
  • Select “Options”
  • Under Excel Options
  • Click on “Formulas”
  •  On the right side you will find “Calculation Options” which has three options:
    •     Automatic
    •    Automatic Except for data tables
    •   And the last is Manual

Works for Excel 2010, Excel 2019 or Excel 365.

That’s it; you can choose which options you want.


To do it via VBA it’s just a one liner code:

Application.Calculation = xlCalculationSemiautomatic
This code corresponds to Automatic Except for data tables.

Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
This code corresponds to the Automatic option
Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
This code as its option suggest is for Manual calculation

Hope you find it helpful, till next time! Cheers!!!

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