How to Make Excel Continue to Count Up for Each Row. Entering a series of sequential numbers into an Excel spreadsheet, one per row, can be a time-consuming and repetitive task.

You can sum a series of numbers in Microsoft Excel manually by typing in a simple formula, or automatically with a tool.

Excel can do more than just render typed numbers in tables of cells. It can take two columns of numbers and show a pictorial representation of how they relate to each other through a graph.

A row-by-row formatting rule is as easy to apply as a column-by-column in Microsoft Excel, but you might not get the results you thought you would.