Excel SUMIFS Function
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• SUMIFS is a function that first appears in Excel
2007. You may have previously used SUMIF to
sum up values in a list based on criteria in
another column. SUMIFS works the same way
but allows you to use multiple criteria either
in different columns or the same column.
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• Take our example. Here we have a list of bank
accounts in three different branches:
Brighton, London and Lewes. For each
account we also have information on what
type of account it is and then finally the
account balance.
• We are going to use SUMIFS to calculate the
total amount held in current accounts at the
Brighton branch.
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• To follow this example type the following data
starting in A1 and using a separate column for each
field.
Branch Type Balance
Brighton Current 5698
Lewes Savings 78878
London ISA 7865
Brighton Savings 45321
Lewes ISA 12356
Brighton Current 8765
London Savings 98345
Brighton ISA 76234
Brighton Savings 3244
London ISA 789876
Brighton Current 781990
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Now enter the following:
• Click in cell E1 and type
Branch
• Click cell F1 and type
Type
• Click in cell G1 and type
• Total
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• Click in cell E2 and type
• Brighton
• Click in cell F2 and type
• Current
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• Click in cell G2 – this is where we will use our
SUMIFS function
• Click on the fx (Insert Function) button on the
formula bar
• Type SUMIFS into the search box and click Go
• Click on OK
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• In the Sum Range box type c2:c12
This is the range of cells we want to add up
• In the Criteria_range1 box type a2:a12
This is the range for our branch criteria
• In the Criteria1 box type Brighton
• In the Criteria_range2 box type b2:b12
This is the range for our account type criteria
• In the Criteria2 box type Current
• Click on OK and you should get the answer 79645
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• You might want to try specifying two criteria on the
same column. For example sum up balances for all
accounts held in Brighton and Lewes.
• Also try adding more than two criteria, say two
criteria for one column and an additional criteria for
another.
• For those of you who use the COUNTIF function try
out the COUNTIFS function in Excel 2007. Like
SUMIFS this allows you to specify more than one
criteria to count on.
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• See this Excel training tutorial on the Blue
Pecan website
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