SUMPRODUCT problems

[Guest]

SUMPRODUCT(--(LEFT($G$2:$G$150,10)="employment"))
In column G are groups of economic data. In column B are the numbers that
correspond to that group. The problem is that not all of the corresponding
“employment†cells in column B will have numbers. I need to be able to come
up with only the number of cells in column B that contain numbers.
SUMPRODUCT(--(LEFT($G$2:$G$150,10)="employment")) returns the number 19 for
the 19 times “employment†is in column G.
The cells in column B that are directly to the left of the “employmentâ€
cells at this time contain 14 numbers. I need a formula or modify this
formula to be able to return the value of 14.
Thanks for the help

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

mmcap,

Try

=SUMPRODUCT((LEFT($G$2:$G$150,10)="employment")*ISNUMBER(B2:B150))

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

works great I just had to add the $ for the range in order for it to work in
both of the ways I sort the data.
Thanks much
Norm