Not really, you could use equivalent array formulae or SUMPRODUCT, but my
guess is that SUMIF would be the least intensive of the three.

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RP
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"Rich" wrote in message
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i have a program which looks at the header of a row and colum, then read's
the name in both headers joins the together into one word,, then looks on
another sheet to find cells containing matching data and adds the value in
the next cell

current formula is

=SUMIF('Formulas '!$C:$H,$B155&BX$81,'Formulas '!$H:$H)

as their are about 30,000 of these formula on the page is their a formula
or
function which will do the same job but is not so memory hungry (takes
about
5 min to calculate the ranges)