If you are addressing me, I am simply stating that the MONTH function
requires a date! As in MONTH(date). Semi-colons and commas are not the
issue. The OP posted =SUMIFS(D1:D10;A1:A10;MONTH=4;B1:B10;"criteria") I
repeat, where is the date for the month function to evaluate??????

Tyro

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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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,
Ryan---
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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