diff --git a/instat/static/InstatObject/R/data_object_R6.R b/instat/static/InstatObject/R/data_object_R6.R
index 49d582fa8a..9849e5ca74 100644
--- a/instat/static/InstatObject/R/data_object_R6.R
+++ b/instat/static/InstatObject/R/data_object_R6.R
@@ -4524,7 +4524,7 @@ DataSheet$set("public", "has_labels", function(col_names) {
 }
 )
 
-DataSheet$set("public", "anova_tables2", function(x_col_names, y_col_name, signif.stars = FALSE, sign_level = FALSE, means = FALSE) {
+DataSheet$set("public", "anova_tables2", function(x_col_names, y_col_name, total = TRUE, signif.stars = FALSE, sign_level = FALSE, means = FALSE) {
   if(missing(x_col_names) || missing(y_col_name)) stop("Both x_col_names and y_col_names are required")
   if(sign_level || signif.stars) message("This is no longer descriptive")
   if(sign_level) end_col = 5 else end_col = 4
@@ -4536,11 +4536,9 @@ DataSheet$set("public", "anova_tables2", function(x_col_names, y_col_name, signi
   }
 
   return_item <- NULL
-  mod <- lm(formula = as.formula(formula_str), data = self$get_data_frame())  
-  anova_mod <- anova(mod)[1:end_col] %>%
-    tibble::as_tibble(rownames = " ") %>%
-    tibble::add_row(` ` = "Total",
-                    dplyr::summarise(., across(where(is.numeric), sum)))
+  mod <- lm(formula = as.formula(formula_str), data = self$get_data_frame())
+  anova_mod <- anova(mod)[1:end_col] %>% tibble::as_tibble(rownames = " ")
+  if (total) anova_mod <- anova_mod %>% tibble::add_row(` ` = "Total", dplyr::summarise(., across(where(is.numeric), sum)))
   return_item[[paste0("ANOVA table: ", formula_str, sep = "")]] <- anova_mod
   if(means){
       if (class(mod$model[[x_col_names]]) == "numeric"){