Formula help needed

[Karen]

I have a chart with 5 columns :

Month | Section | Area | Time
Jan | 1 | A | 00:30
Jan | 3 | B | 01:30
Feb | 2 | A | 00:30
Feb | 1 | B | 01:30

Need to find out the total time based on different month, Section, Area.
That is, if I want the total time for Jan in Section 3, Area B what formula
can I use?

Thank you.

 

[T. Valko]

If you're using Excel 2007:

Use cells to hold the criteria...

F2 = some month like Jan
G2 = some section like 3
H2 = some area like B

=SUMIFS(D25,A2:A5,F2,B2:B5,G2,C2:C5,H2)

This one will work in any version:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A5=F2),--(B2:B5=G2),--(C2:C5=H2),D25)

Format as [h]:mm

 

[Karen]

Hi Biff

Thank you very much. I am using Excel 2003. Tried the =sumproduct formula
but got “#value!†error. Is there anything I must do with the “- -“?

If you're using Excel 2007:

Use cells to hold the criteria...

F2 = some month like Jan
G2 = some section like 3
H2 = some area like B

=SUMIFS(D25,A2:A5,F2,B2:B5,G2,C2:C5,H2)

This one will work in any version:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A5=F2),--(B2:B5=G2),--(C2:C5=H2),D25)

Format as [h]:mm

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

I have a chart with 5 columns :

Month | Section | Area | Time
Jan | 1 | A | 00:30
Jan | 3 | B | 01:30
Feb | 2 | A | 00:30
Feb | 1 | B | 01:30

Need to find out the total time based on different month, Section, Area.
That is, if I want the total time for Jan in Section 3, Area B what
formula
can I use?

Thank you.

.

 

[Ashish Mathur]

Hi,

You may create a pivot table - Drag month and section to the row area, Area
to the column area and time to the data area

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Regards,

Ashish Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com

 

[Karen]

Hi Ashish

A pivot table is not ideal for my case. Someone else gave me a formula, it
was supposed to work but in my case it ended up with "#N/A". Can you help me
take a look?

=SUMPRODUCT(($A$2:$A$4=DATEVALUE("Jan"))*($B$2:$B$4=3)*($C$2:$C$4="B")*N5:N11)

Thank you.

 

[Rick Rothstein]

Did you type it in or did you copy/paste it in? If you didn't copy/paste it,
then try doing that. The two minus signs (with no space between them)
effectively multiply a value by 1... in this particular case, that
multiplication forces Excel to convert the TRUE or FALSE value returned from
the logical comparison to a numerical equivalent (1 for TRUE and 0 for
FALSE) in order to perform the mathematical operation.

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Rick (MVP - Excel)

Hi Biff

Thank you very much. I am using Excel 2003. Tried the =sumproduct formula
but got “#value!†error. Is there anything I must do with the “- -“?

If you're using Excel 2007:

Use cells to hold the criteria...

F2 = some month like Jan
G2 = some section like 3
H2 = some area like B

=SUMIFS(D25,A2:A5,F2,B2:B5,G2,C2:C5,H2)

This one will work in any version:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A5=F2),--(B2:B5=G2),--(C2:C5=H2),D25)

Format as [h]:mm

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

I have a chart with 5 columns :

Month | Section | Area | Time
Jan | 1 | A | 00:30
Jan | 3 | B | 01:30
Feb | 2 | A | 00:30
Feb | 1 | B | 01:30

Need to find out the total time based on different month, Section,
Area.
That is, if I want the total time for Jan in Section 3, Area B what
formula
can I use?

Thank you.

.

 

[Fred Smith]

Karen,

You need to tell us *exactly* what's in column A. Is it the text "Jan" as
was shown in your first post? Or is it a date (formatted as mmm) as shown
here? Next, your ranges have to be the same length. A2:A4 is 3 cells, but
n5:n11 is 7. They all have to be the same number of cells.

If they're text, use:
=SUMPRODUCT(($A$2:$A$4="Jan")*($B$2:$B$4=3)*($C$2:$C$4="B")*N5:N7)

If they're dates, use:
=SUMPRODUCT((Text($A$2:$A$4,"mmm")="Jan")*($B$2:$B$4=3)*($C$2:$C$4="B")*N5:N7)

Regards
Fred

 

[Karen]

Hi Fred

Thank you so much. It worked.

Many thanks to Valko, Rick and Ashish also...

All of you guys are wonderful.

Regards
Karen