I misunderstood. Try this
=sumproduct((d3:f31="bags")*c3:c31)

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"michaelberrier" wrote in message
oups.com...
Don,
Thanks for looking. This only tells me how many times that word shows
up in the list. I would like to add the numbers adjacent to that word
as they represent a quantity. I'm thinking an Offset would work as
the quantity is always the cell to the left of the value, but I'm not
sure how to write that.


On Mar 27, 10:11 am, "Don Guillett" wrote:
to count bags where f6 contains "bags"
=COUNTIF(Sheet12!A:F,F6)

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software
"michaelberrier" wrote
in message

oups.com...

There are several lists of items in the range D3:F31. In the same
range, beside the items are quantities, like so

5 Bags
3 Boxes
2 Carts etc,

Many of the items are duplicated throughout the multiple lists, so I'd
like a total quantity of each item. I've copied all the items to a
master list, but I'm stumped on the function to pull the individual
values out of each list for each item...I'm guessing it's a SUMIF, but
I'm not sure how to make it work.

Thanks in advance.