Date String "Gone!"

[George_B]

I prefer putting the arrayformula in row one along with the column label/title. There is no way it can be deleted by the app and it eliminates the need of the seemingly empty row 2. There are two ways to do it. I prefer the first one listed and am in the process of changing all of my sheets to work this way.

={"Add Method 1";ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISBLANK(A2:A),"",A2:A + B2:B + C2:C))} 

Using ARRAYFORMULA()'s in Row 1 of your Spreadsheet

I can’t take credit for this tip but I just found out about this trick/tip by reading a post here. So the “Normal” way of using an ARRAYFORMULA function is to use it in row 2 of a given column. You just have to be careful not to accidentally deleted it, or have a user delete it. So the next idea was to put it in row 2 but not put any other data in the row and then hide or minimize that row. Basically your data for the non ARRAYFORMULA columns would start on row 3. Then I saw the post I’ll l…