Using what I leaned from a previous message this morning:
=SUMPRODUCT((LEFT(H2:H5,13) = "total Revenue")*(I2:I5))

"Joseph" wrote in message
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i want to do a conditonal sumif only searching on the first 13 characters
of
the items in the list. ie. "Total Revenue" of what might be "Total
Revenue - All SE Accounts"

How can I use a variable instead of a fixed value to search on?

Any ideas on how I might be able to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Joe