Excel 2003 sum if or count if ... or is it something else ???

[Kawboy]

I am using Excel 2003 and am really stuck on getting a sum or count function
to work if it matches another column. I know this might be bread and butter
to some of you but as a bit of a novice, I've tried what I consider to be the
obvious and get nothing.

My problem -
On a sheet B I want to sum (or count) all the times "Telephone" occurs in
columns F or G only if "Other" occurs in columns K or L, these columns being
on sheet A.

See, told you it was simple enough ... but please Please PLEASE how do I do
it?

 

[Kawboy]

My sheet A uses 14415 rows, and columns F & G use about 50 variables of which
Telephone is just one, and columns K & L use 21 variables of which Other is
just one.

 

[Kawboy]

.... AND I've read my Dummies guide without any success. Does that make me
dummier than dummy?

 

[Kawboy]

Here is what I think I want to do ...

=COUNT(A!F:G,"Telephone")IF(A!K:L,"Other")
or
=SUM(A!F:G,"Telephone")IF(A!K:L,"Other")

but neither of those formula return a value.
I know the correct formula will be easy, maybe even easier than these, but I
don't know what it is.

 

[Chip Pearson]

Try the following array formula:

=SUM((--(((SheetA!F1:F10="telephone")+(SheetA!G1:G10="telephone"))>0))*(--(((SheetA!K1:K10="other")+(SheetA!L1:L10="other"))>0)))

This is an array formula, so you MUST press CTRL SHIFT ENTER rather
than just ENTER when you first enter the formula and whenever you edit
it later. If you do this correctly, Excel will display the formula in
the formula bar enclosed in curly braces { }. You don't type in the
braces; Excel puts them there automatically. The formula will not work
correctly if you do not enter it with CTRL SHIFT ENTER. See
www.cpearson.com/Excel/ArrayFormulas.aspx for much more information
about array formulas.


Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional,
Excel, 1998 - 2010
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Kawboy]

Chip,

Thank you very Very VERY much. I've loaded your formula and created the
array, and am getting totals. With 14415 rows of data, I can't say for sure
the totals I'm getting are accurate, but with 14415 rows of data, neither can
my boss ;-)

Excellent work.

Kawboy
New Zealand

 

[Ashish Mathur]

Hi,

You may try this to count

=sumproduct((F2:G14515="Telephone")*(K2:L14515="Other"))

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Regards,

Ashish Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com