excel totals

excel totals

Can someone please advise why it is not possible  to add the values in a column in excel!

I can't be the only one getting fed up with needing to manually  type every number down the column in order to be able to perform basic excel functions. 

It's a crazy waste of time and prone to mistakes. Plus  I live in the UK thus the $ is wrong anyway

I have asked about this (as have any others based on the forums) for over a year and have been advised it was being looked into - does anyone have any information?

It's so annoying
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