I think you are missing the point. I wasn't really trying to get the
shortest version, such formula pyrotechnics is largely pointless IMO, the
technically inverse equivalent of logorrhoea. TM made an 'improvement' on
mine, making the point that it was shorter, and included a superfluous --,
so I was ribbing him!

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HTH

Bob

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"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Even shorter:

Assuming DREGION and MISDUE are vertical arrays...

A1:C1 = FREIGHT; TRANSPORT; HQ BLNG

=SUMPRODUCT((ISNUMBER(SEARCH(A1:C1,DREGION)))*MISD UE)


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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even shorter

=SUMPRODUCT((ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"HQ
BLNG","TRANSPORT","FREIGHT"},DREGION)))*MISDUE)

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HTH

Bob

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"Teethless mama" wrote in
message ...
Shorter version:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"HQ
BLNG","TRANSPORT","FREIGHT"},DREGION)))*MISDUE)



"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("HQ BLNG",DREGION)))+
(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("TRANSPORT",DREGION)))+

(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("FREIGHT",DREGION))),MISDUE)

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HTH

Bob

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addy)

"Eddy Stan" wrote in message
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Hi
Can anyone help me on this. thanks in advance.
I am getting answer required by the following formula
=SUMPRODUCT(--(DREGION="HQ BLNG EAST")+(DREGION="HQ BLNG
WEST")+(DREGION="HQ
BLNG NORTH")+(DREGION="HQ BLNG SOUTH"),MISDUE)
Where the first part is constant "HQ BLNG".
Is there any way to search the string in range DREGION and find the
sum.
Like "HQ BLNG xxxx", "xxxx TRANSPORT xxxx", "xxxxx xxxxx FREIGHT"
xxxx i mean to say that it could be any string.

Thank you