Conditional Adding/Totaling

[Guest]

I have 2 columns, one is "cost" which is in currency form, and the other is
"salesperson".....(there are only 2 salespeople)

At the bottom of my sheet I have 3 squares, one for saleperson1,
saleperson2, and grand total....

I know how to show the grand total by totaling the whole column....

But how do I total the costs of 1 particular salesperson? In psuedo-code like:

If COLUMN B, ROW1 = "Tim" then Add COLUMN A, ROW1 to the total square at the
bottom for salesperson1...

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!!!

 

[Jason Morin]

Use SUMIF. For an example, see:

http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/sumif.htm

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

-----Original Message-----
I have 2 columns, one is "cost" which is in currency form, and the other is
"salesperson".....(there are only 2 salespeople)

At the bottom of my sheet I have 3 squares, one for saleperson1,
saleperson2, and grand total....

I know how to show the grand total by totaling the whole column....

But how do I total the costs of 1 particular

salesperson? In psuedo-code like:

 

[Guest]

hi
assuming that costs is column a2:A100 and salepersons is
column b2:b100:

=sumif(b2:b100,"salesperson1",A2:A100)