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In Google Sheets, I have the following data:

    |   A |  B  |  C  |  ...  | N  | TOTALS       |
  1 |  123|  425|  324|  ...  | 234| =SUM(A1:N1)  |
  2 |  123|  425|  324|  ...  | 234| =SUM(A2:N2)  |
  3 |  123|  425|  324|  ...  | 234| =SUM(A3:N3)  |

How can I create the TOTALS column using ARRAYFORMULA?

ARRAYFORMULA(SUM(A1:C99)) will give a single number, the sum of all the cells — that’s not what I want.

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Use the following formula to do that.

Formula

=MMULT(B2:E4,TRANSPOSE(ARRAYFORMULA(COLUMN(B2:E4)^0)))

Explained

The ARRAYFORMULA is meant to return the complete range, as set by the COLUMN formula. The ^0 (power of zero) will always return 1. Therefore each result is multiplied by 1 (yielding the same value) and summed.

Example

I've created an example file for you: SUM OVER ROWS

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    @YisraelDov, remember to mark the answer as accepted if it was what you were looking for.
    – Alex
    Dec 2, 2014 at 9:04
  • This is a remarkable answer.
    – Michael Litvin
    Oct 30, 2016 at 22:10
  • Any idea on how to make it work with blank cells? (to be treated as 0)
    – Michael Litvin
    Oct 30, 2016 at 22:26
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    @MichaelLitvin: try this: =ARRAYFORMULA(SUMIF(IF(COLUMN(B1:E1),ROW(B2:E4)),ROW(B2:E4),B2:E4)). ht to @AdamL.
    – Jacob Jan Tuinstra
    Oct 31, 2016 at 18:20
  • To handle empty, one option is to use indirect instead of range. In my case I used this indirect("e3:y"&max(arrayformula((index(E3:Y,0,0)<>"")*row(E3:Y))))
    – BrunoLM
    Apr 22, 2018 at 22:42
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How about manually summing the columns:

=arrayformula(A:A + B:B + C:C)
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  • Can’t be sure the poster meant N as a placeholder for a unknown number of columns or if the poster really meant column N. If the number of columns cannot be determined ahead of time, then explicitly naming each and every column in the formulae is not an option.
    – Kevin Li
    Jan 1, 2020 at 22:07
  • This can be cumbersome if you have lots of columns
    – Marjeta
    Dec 12, 2020 at 20:15
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Use a modified version of the answer by Jacob to include blank cells.

=MMULT(arrayformula(B2:E4 * 1),TRANSPOSE(ARRAYFORMULA(COLUMN(B2:E4)^0)))

Alternatively, you can use the following simpler form as well (excludes column function, please note the difference in the second cell reference B2:E2 instead of B2:E4):

=MMULT(arrayformula(B2:E4 * 1),TRANSPOSE(ARRAYFORMULA(B2:E2^0)))
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Taking collection of data to be summed as B2:E4;

Simplified version of SUM OVER ROWS, coercing blanks to zeroes:

=ARRAYFORMULA(MMULT(B2:E4*1,TRANSPOSE(COLUMN(B2:E4))^0))

Corollary: SUM OVER COLUMNS, coercing blanks to zeroes:

=ARRAYFORMULA(MMULT(TRANSPOSE(ROW(B2:E4))^0,B2:E4*1))
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