Resurrecting Calculate

First, select Tools > Customize and click the Commands tab.

In the Categories column, choose All Commands. Scroll down until you find ToolsCalculate, as shown below.

Drag the command to the Tools menu and place it right under the Speech option or anywhere else on the menu. Right-click the new menu item and rename it Calculate, as shown below.

When you first place the command on a menu or toolbar, it may appear grayed out. Calculate is available only when you've selected text.

Using Calculate

By default, the Calculate command will add any set of selected numbers separated by white space. Word temporarily displays the result in the status bar, as shown below, and also places it on the clipboard.

Calculate ignores any text that isn't a number, except for currency symbols, periods, and commas, which it recognizes when these are part of a number. For operations other than addition, you must include the mathematical operator. Table 1 (below) lists the operations in reverse order of precedence.

To force a calculation out of precedence order, enclose the expression in parentheses. Addition and subtraction are of equal precedence and are evaluated left to right. Multiplication and division also are of equal precedence and are evaluated left to right. Though Calculate is most often used in tables, it works on any selected text. .

Table 1: Syntax for the Calculate command, in reverse order of precedence.