yogi_Compute Running Total Of Successive Entries In Column A

                                          Google Spreadsheet   Post  #1469
Yogi Anand, D.Eng, P.E.      ANAND Enterprises LLC -- Rochester Hills MI     www.energyefficientbuild.com.   Jan-03-2014
question by richard jaminski (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/spreadsheets/FsuSS3Yoo3E)
How do I create a running balance like a check ledger.

I read the answers provided to this question and hardly know where to begin - I'm completely new to Google Spreadsheets. 

I know how to make a running column in Excel: NAME the first cell in the array and make the running column formula start at the Named cell as a starting cell. Spreadsheets seems to be completely different.

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How do you make the running total column expand AUTOMATICALLY when new data is added in cells A6, A7, A8, and so on...? I read the answer to this question in a previous post and I could not make any sense of it because it seemed to assume certain previous knowledge. 

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