Hi,

You can try this

Name Sales
(Column A) (Column B)
A 100
B 200
C 300
A 1000
B 2000
C 3000

SUMIF(range,criteria,[sum_range])
=SUMIF(A:A,"B",B:B)

I Hope this will help you.

Sridhar

"minxy11" wrote:


hi, i am wanting to use vlookup and sum funtion together but dont know
how, i am using a table for transactions (employee names and prices).
what i want to do is search the transactions and add up the total sales
per person.
thanks


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