I need add the total number of hours for only those patients
who have a specific text item selected in the first dropdown list.

Column B = drop down list of injuries
Column C = drop down list of hours

=SUMPRODUCT(--(B1:B10="injury"),C1:C10)

Replace injury with the actual injury: fracture, laceration, sprain,
whatever.

Better to use a cell to hold the criteria:

E1 = fracture

=SUMPRODUCT(--(B1:B10=E1),C1:C10)


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Jesse Blanchard" wrote in
message ...
The situation: I have a list of patient names in one column, a dropdown
list
with four text options (for their type of injury) in another, and another
dropdown list with a numerical value of how many administrative hours
spent
on them in another dropdown list.

I need a formula that will keep tally of the number of hours spent on a
patient according to their injury. So, in short, I need add the total
number
of hours for only those patients who have a specific text item selected in
the first dropdown list.

Thanks to all who reply to these things. I have learned a lot about excel
in
just two days thanks to your help.