Who are you arguing with, me, the OP, or ryguy7272? You picked up on the OP
(irrelevantly AFAICS), and ryguy7272 picked up on me (incorrectly as it
turns out) but he made the mistake of replying to your posting, not mine in
the thread. My response was to ryguy7272 pointing out that it was correct to
use semi-colons if you have a continental version of Excel, it was not to
you, was not appended to yours. You have managed to mix up three posts,
completely failed to get the gist of the OPs question (I may have also, but
you definitely did), he was trying to show what he had tried but failed to
get working.

And semi-colons are not used for commas, they are used as a separator of
function arguments. You do not use commas, because on the continent, commas
are used as the decimal separator for numbers, so they cannot be used as the
argument separator.

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HTH

Bob


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"Tyro" wrote in message
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True, but semi-colons are used for commas. To my understanding, they do
not replace the need for arguments enclosed in parentheses. MONTH=4 is
exactly what is says it is. It is not MONTH(date).
=SUMIFS(D1:D10;A1:A10;MONTH=4;B1:B10;"criteria") does not contain
parentheses to enclose the date argument to the MONTH function, as far as
I can ascertain. Even if the semi-colons were replaced by commas, it is
still MONTH=4. MONTH of what?

Tyro


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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No they are meant to contain semi-colons, as did the OPs, because
presumably he has a continental Excel.

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HTH

Bob


(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my
addy)



"ryguy7272" wrote in message
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I think Bob's formulas are supposed to contain commas, not semicolons, as
such:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH(A1:A10)=4),--(B1:B10="criteria"),D1:D10)

Also, you may consider this:
=COUNTIF(A1:A9,"=4")+COUNTIF(B1:B9,"criteria")

However, that may not yield the results you are after.

Finally, a pivot table would do it for you, but I think you'd have to
add a
helper column, and you have to use something like the =month() function.


Regards,
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RyGuy


"Tyro" wrote:

MONTH=4? MONTH of what?
Did you look in Help for the usage of MONTH?

Tyro

"Jonas" wrote in message
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Hi.

I have a table of entries, structured in the following way:

Column A contains dates. Column B contains a data validated list.
Column D
contains values.

I now wish to go through all the rows in the list, and sum the values
if
1)
the value of the cell in column B matches "criteria", and 2) the date
in
column A is in a specific month.

I tried the following formula to sum over all dates in April, without
success:

=SUMIFS(D1:D10;A1:A10;MONTH=4;B1:B10;"criteria")

I suspect my use of the MONTH function is a bit unorthodox, but can't
seem
to figure out the proper way to do it.

I would greatly appreciate any help!

/Jonas