SUM all Instances Q

[Seanie]

How could I achieve the following via formula

I want to add up all the instances that certain numbers appear in Col
B with their corresponding values in COL D e.g. if 1 or 3 or 6 or 20
or 26 or 30 or 55 appears in Row1 then add the value that appears in
Row1 COL D and do this for every row in sheet where a values exist in
COL B.

I know how I could do it if I was looking for only 1 instance in ColB,
but the multi instances has me guessing

Thanks

 

[Fred Smith]

You want Sumif, as in:
=sumif(B:B,1,D)

Regards,
Fred

 

[Seanie]

Thanks, that would be ideal if I could do =SUMIF(B:B,1,2,3,4,5,D),
but it only takes 1 criteria

 

[JLatham]

If the ,1,2,3,4,5 part means sum them if value in B equals any one of those 5
values, then simply write a longish formula for all cases:

=SUMIF(B:B,1,D)+SUMIF(B:B,2,D)+SUMIF(B:B,3,D)+SUMIF(B:B,4,D)+SUMIF(B:B,5,D)

You only have to do it once.

 

[Seanie]

Is there any limit to the 'longish' formula? Something tells me 8 is
the limit

 

[JLatham]

Not in this case. The limit is the number of characters that can make up a
formula. That is 1024 in Excel 2003.

You are thinking of nested formulas when you mention 8. It's actually 7
levels of nesting, which gives you 8 options.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Another:

=SUM(SUMIF(B:B,{1,2,3,4,5},D))

Thanks, that would be ideal if I could do =SUMIF(B:B,1,2,3,4,5,D),
but it only takes 1 criteria

 

[JLatham]

Dadgummit! I almost went there. Stopped before adding the outside SUM(), it
didn't work as an array formula, so I went with the individual SUMIF()s.

Hope OP sees your post.

 

[Seanie]

Thanks guys

 

[Seanie]

A further twist on =SUM(SUMIF(B:B,{1,2,3,4,5},D))

How could I incorporate a further criteria eg. If ColA contains
"London" and if ColB contains one of 1,2,3,4,5 then add up all those
instance in ColD

 

[Dave Peterson]

Are you using xl2007?

If you are, you may want to try =sum(sumifs(...))
(I didn't load xl2007 to try that.)

But this seemed to work for me in xl2003:

=SUM(SUMPRODUCT((A1:A10="London")*(B1:B10={1,2,3,4,5})*D110))

Adjust the ranges to match--but you can't use whole columns (except in xl2007+).

Bob Phillips explains =sumproduct() in much more detail here:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html

 

[Seanie]

Yes Dave, using 2007. Would replacing 1,2,3,4,5 etc with a Range Name
where all my values listed work? - just can't test this as this moment

 

[Dave Peterson]

I don't have xl2007 on this pc.

But post back with your results <bg>.

 

[Seanie]

I tried below, which should just return all "Londons" Sales of 18,20,
32 etc etc, but I get a #Value

=SUM(SUMPRODUCT(('Sales Mix'!A:A="London")*('Sales Mix'!
B:B={18,20,32,140,172,208,212,500,99,204,203})*'Sales Mix'!D))



This formula below gives me the correct total sales I'm after in all
Areas

=SUM(SUMIF('Sales Mix'!B:B,
{18,20,32,140,172,208,212,500,99,204,203},'Sales Mix'!D))

 

[Dave Peterson]

I'm guessing that you have some non-numeric entry in column D.

=sum(a1:b1)
will ignore text entries

But using multiplication
=a1*b1
will result in a #value! error.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I could have used:
=a1+b1
will fail if either contains non-numeric data (just to be consistent with the
=sum()).