Running total within IF

[DanielWalters6]

Hi, I'm looking for a formula which will add together all of the values from
a range if they are negative... (only if they are negative)
So far, I've used the countif function to count how many positive and
negative results are recorded. - okay for the project at the moment, as
values 1 or -1 or 0 will be entered into system, so counting negative values
is the same thing, however if -3 points is entered into the range, this
obviously doesn't work...

I'm normally okay with excel formulas, just need a little push in the right
direction,

thank you for any help you can provide.

 

[bpeltzer]

=SUMIF(range,"<0")

 

[Pete_UK]

Use SUMIF instead of COUNTIF - it has 3 parameters, like this:

=SUMIF(condition_range,"<0",sum_range)

although in your case sum_range might be the same as condition_range, so it
could be omitted and would therefore look very similar to a COUNTIF formula.

Hope this helps.

Pete

 

[Gord Dibben]

=SUMIF(A1:A100,"<0") will return the sum of negatives as negative number

=ABS(SUMIF(A1:A100,"<0")) will return the sum of negatives as positive number


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[DanielWalters6]

Thank you all for your help!
I wan'st aware of SUMIF - Was trying to build an IF statement, which if
conditions matched added it to a total variable.

Thank you again

Dan