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Welcome to another blog post from theMySQL for ExcelTeam. Today we're going to talk about a new feature included since MySQL for Excel1.3.0, remember you can always install the latest GA or maintenance version using theMySQL Installer also you can download directly any GA or non-GA version from theMySQL Developer Zone

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Thinking about how we can makeMySQL for Excelusers life more easy we added an option to include a calculation-summary row to theImport Data process. We are going to show you in this post how to take advantage of this new option in a few clicks.

The current blog post assumes you already know how to import data into excel, you could always take a look at our previous postHow To - Guide to Importing Data from a MySQL Database to Excel using MySQL for Excel if you need further reference on that topic.

When you are importing a table toExcelyou will notice this option at theImportdialog:

Check that option before pressing theImportbutton.

Once you did that, check the last row from the data you imported and you will notice a new row at the end:

If you select a a cell from that row you will notice an arrow appears:

if you click it a set of summary options will appear, allowing you to customize how the data in the upper cells will be processed to show the result in this last row:

for this blog we have selectedSumto show an example of how this works:

And that's it! We learned how to add summary fields to our data imports to excel easily. Remember that your feedback is very important for us, please drop us a message with your comments, suggestions for this or other features and follow us at our social media channels:

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