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Default Summing Multiple Columns

Bob... you are a genius! I've been looking for this type of a solution for a
long time.

Thanks for your time and effort on this!



"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=SUM(IF(((MOD(COLUMN(B2:EX20),3)=2)*(B2:EX20="a")) ,C2:EY20))

which is an array formula, it should be committed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter, not
just Enter.
Excel will automatically enclose the formula in braces (curly brackets), do
not try to do this manually.
When editing the formula, it must again be array-entered.

Note how the colums are offset.

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HTH

Bob

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"SFO User" wrote in message
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Marcelo,

If I have 52 weeks across 150 columns of data... with this formula,
wouldn't
the fomula become enormous? I'm trying to avoid creating a monster
formula.

Thoughts?

"Marcelo" wrote:

Assuming

Week1
Name = Column A
Task = Column B
Hours = Column C

Week 2
Name = Column D
Task = Column E
Hours = Column F

=sumproduct(--(b2:b100="a"),(c2:c100))+sumproduct(--(e2:e100="a"),(f2:f100))

hth
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regards from Brazil
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Marcelo



"SFO User" escreveu:

This is really difficult trying to explain a problem without sending an
actual spreadsheet. Here is the data in a more concise format...

Week 1 Week 2
Name Task Hours Name Task Hours
Bill a 10 Bill b 15
Bill b 20 Joe d 15
Sue a 30 Sue a 5
Bill c 10 Bill c 5

I want to get the total number of hours spent on Task "a" across all
weeks.
In this example the answer would be 45 (week 1: Bill 10 + Sue 30 + week
2:
Sue 5). This table will have 52 weeks in it.

Any help would be appreciated.

SFO User