Here is an alternative

=SUMPRODUCT(--(LEFT(A21:B21,1)="S"),--(RIGHT(A21:B21,1)))

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HTH

RP
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"Gee-off" wrote in message
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Thank you, that worked perfectly. Now I am going to through each step of
the
evaluation process and see exactly why. Thanks again.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

How about

=RIGHT(A1,1)*(LEFT(A1,1)="S")+RIGHT(B1,1)*(LEFT(B1 ,1)="S")

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HTH

RP
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"Gee-off" wrote in message
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I guess what I am really trying to do is "add" the second digit of
"A1" &
"B1" and put the sum in "C1".....so long as the first digit is an "S".

"Gee-off" wrote:

A B C
1 S6 S2

I know how to use the countif function as if to count all values
that
equal
"S*" (value beginning with "S" only regardless of the following
number)
in a
row. Then tally, per row, the number of times "S*" appeared in the
range.
The formula for "C1" would be: =countif(A1:B2,"S*") which right
now
would
return the value of 1. Now what I want to do is in addition to this
formula,
I want "C1" to also calculate the countif portion and then multiply
the
countif returned value by the second number in the stated cell.
i.e.
A1 =
S6, so "C1" has a value of "1", now mulitply the "1" by the second
digit
in
"A1" (which is 6). How would I go about this?