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So I have a ledger sheet that was set up to record costs for a single project. We've added a project column so we can track more than one project so every entry (row) now is identified per project. I'm already running some SUMIF functions to total a column if another column matches a criteria, but I now need to add in another criterion...

For example:

My existing formula sums column J where column E = "sometext"

=Sumif(Ledger!$E$7:$E$900, "Amberon", Ledger!$J$7:$J$900)

How can I expand this to sum only when two columns match?

My newly added project identifier is column Ledger!$A$7:$A$900

Ideally, I'll only have one set of sum values but will select which project they apply to based on the value in a cell with a picker (List of projects).

I've read about SUMIFS but can't seem to understand the syntax.

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=SUMIFS(A1:A17, B1:B17, "Dragon",
                C1:C17, "Kate")

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  • I think I understand this - I'll give it a try - Thanks.
    – Peter Kay
    Jan 12, 2019 at 13:40
  • Can you help with the syntax if the test is another cell rather than text in " "? so Lookups!C4 whose content is a drop down picked from a list? This will mean we can have a single tab whose content is the product of SUMIfs with a drop down to select one of the criterion.
    – Peter Kay
    Jan 12, 2019 at 13:43
  • yes, you can make dynamic criterion from dropdown list too
    – user0
    Jan 12, 2019 at 14:18

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