I am not able to use wildcards

Is that by choice or directive or is it that you can't figure out how to use
wildcards?

Try this:

=SUMIF(A$2:A$6,"*"&F2&"*",B$2:B$6)

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"esbee" wrote in message
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Hi everybody,
I have in column A (say A2:A100), strings containing names and dates
concatinated by "-". I have extracted the names using DataText To
Column.
The parsed names have been filtered to have unique names and are kept in
another column say column F ( say F2 :F15).

The names are of variable length (say 4 to 6 characters). As there could
be more than one row containing data relating to the same name but of
different dates, I want to use the unique names in Col F by referencing
them
in a formula to extract all data available against them in Col B (
B2:B100).
I want to use sumif or sumproduct. I am not clear how to reference them
as
the name lengths are not uniform. As the names are in Col F, I am not able
to
use wildcards. Can any one help ?
I give below a sample of data below:

A B F

Dat-Esbee-09-13-2006-S 200 Esbee
Dat-Harry-12-23-2005-S 120 Harry
Dat-Esbee-02-15-2007-S 270 Pete
Dat-Pete-05-13-2006-P 120 TiaN

Dat-TiaN-04-30-2006-S 325

The total of B for each name in F has to be arrived at using a formula.

Thanks in advance.

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esbee