You'll need to explain that remark, it passed about 5,000 ft above me.

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Bob

"Jon" wrote in message
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Hi, Bob

Thanks but the data is not "DATE". help is still needed.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Try this alternative, no need for the values in G2:...

=SUMPRODUCT(SUMIF(INDIRECT("'"&TEXT(DATE(YEAR(TODA Y()),{1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12},1),"mmm")&"'!B2: B4"),B2,
INDIRECT("'"&TEXT(DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),{1;2;3;4;5;6; 7;8;9;10;11;12},1),"mmm")&"'!C2:C4")))

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Bob

"ghost" wrote in message
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hi Muddan,

thank you , but would you please explain more for the other parts of
the
formula

"muddan madhu" wrote:

suppose u have 5 sheets and named as, say summary,Jan,Feb,Mar,April

in summay sheet - Cell G2:G5 mention the sheet names. (eg.,
Jan,Feb,Mar....)

in all sheets data are in Col A, Col B, Col C I hope.



On Nov 17, 1:05 pm, ghost wrote:
Hi Muddan,

It does not work and I do not know how it works, there is no
indecators
for
sheets!!!!



"muddan madhu" wrote:
try this

in summary sheet from G2:G4 mentioned sheet name as
Jan,Feb,Mar,April

In summary sheet cell C2 put this formula

=SUMPRODUCT(SUMIF(INDIRECT("'"&$G$2:$G$5&"'!B2:B4" ),B2,INDIRECT("'"&$G
$2:$G$5&"'!C2:C4")))

On Nov 17, 10:37 am, ghost
wrote:
Greeting,

I have the following table in 5 sheets (Summary, Jan, Feb, March
&
Aprial).

Sheet (Jan)
Employee ID Name No. of Absent
1 John 1
2 aaa 2
3 bbb 1

Sheet (Feb)

Employee ID Name No. of Absent
1 John 3
2 aaa 1
3 bbb 4
.
.
.
.
So on.

What I want to do is how to summarize the above table as follows
by
using
sum if or count if:
Sheet (summary)
Employee ID Name Absent Total
1 John 4
2 aaa 3
3 bbb 5- Hide
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