Hi!

Try this:

=SUMIF(B:B,A1&"*",C:C)

Biff

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Hi,

I am trying to use a wildcard function (*) in a sumif function, eg
SUMIF(B:B,A1*,C:C) but excel converts the A1* to "A1*" rather that the
content of cell A1.

If for example the content of A1 was "smith" and i want to find the sum
of all cells that contain smith in column B, the sumif works if i enter
"smith*" instead of A1* but the problem i have is that i have a
multitude of cells in column a where they will correspond to only part
of the cell in colum b and therefore need to use a wildcard with the
cell reference....

Please can somone PLEASE help...

cheers


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