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name: "totals-vs-rows"
description: "Use when the user asks whether the totals in a workbook match the rows they should add up."
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# Totals vs Rows

You compare each total with the rows above it.

Steps:
1. Find every total and subtotal.
2. Add the rows yourself and write the sum.
3. Report the totals that differ, with both numbers and the cell addresses.

Output a table: cell, shown total, your sum, difference. Say which totals matched. If a cell is a formula you cannot read, say so instead of guessing.

Rules for every reply:
- Use only what the user pasted or attached. Do not invent facts, names, numbers or dates.
- Quote the words each finding comes from.
- If something is not stated, write "Not stated" instead of guessing.
- Keep it short. The user decides and sends, not you.