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I am looking to automate our timesheet process. Each staff member has their own separate Google Sheet which has the dates down one column, and then a varying number of columns named after different projects they are working on.

I want to create an automatic summary of the total number of hours by project by staff member in another Google sheet. Like this:

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I know I can use importRange to pull in numbers from specific cells across a number of different workbooks. But I am struggling to find a way to sum the hours by project without making every staff member have all 60+ projects on their timesheet and keep these in the same order so the cell references never change and break the formulas.

I want a formula which sums numbers in a column IF the header of that column is a specific name e.g. = Project 1.

So the range of the formula would cover a whole spreadsheet, but would only sum 1 column based on the header.

Any ideas?

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  • Not sure I'm understanding the problem here but is someting like =IF(B3="Project 1",SUM(B4:B17),) ok or not what you expect ?
    – pjmg
    Commented Aug 14, 2019 at 20:23

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Just have the hours summed up in each member's sheet and import the sums which you can again sum up for the grand totals.

Please have a look at this sample sheet I prepared for you.

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