Calculated totals = total confusion?

[Curtis Clifton]

Stephen,

On Jul 2, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Stephen Chakwin wrote:

> I did an outline with columns.  The layout was that the heads and 
> subheads
> were items in a commercial dispute, and the columns were of the amount 
> as to
> each item that my side: disputed (one column); believed was owed to it 
> by
> the other side (next column); and believed was owed to the other side 
> (third
> column).
>
> I formatted the columns into numbers, then into currency, but couldn't 
> get
> the columns to give me calculated totals for the entire column.  The 
> on-line
> help wasn't and I'm lost.
>
> Aside from having done the whole thing in a spreadsheet to start with, 
> is
> there something I should have done differently or have I just asked of 
> OO
> what it cannot give me?

Totals are calculated for parent items.  If you want a total for the 
whole document, you need a single parent item for all the other items.  
Try selecting the entire outline, then use the Group command.

-- Curt