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Can you reference an entire column in OpenOffice Calc (like A:A in Excel)?

I'm using a Sum of a column, and it keeps growing, so I have to update the reference to which cells should be summed.
Can you reference an infinite group of cells?
Let's say:

No matter if you use LibreOffice, Excel or any other spreadsheet, your solution may be applied to LibreOffice too.

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marked as duplicate by Daniel Beck, Sathya Oct 22 '11 at 11:28


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In Excel the solution is to use a reference to the entire column. While Excel has a limit on the number of rows and columns a sheet can have, the maximum number is as close to infinite as you're going to get.

For your example, you could use the following:


This adds everything in Column D and subtracts the value of D1, the cell you left out.

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