Which level is highest 1 or 4?
Do you have level 1s first then level 2s or you have level 1 then level2,..
and then this pattern repeats...?

You can adjust your range and/or conditions to get what you want. If you can
tell us in detail then we can provide a formula.

"mmccoog" wrote:

Sorry, I meant I want it to stop when it hits a level that is equal or lower
than the current line. So when it's on the first level 1, it will sum all the
level 2 lines but stop when it gets to the next level 1. Does that make sense?

"Sheeloo" wrote:

If you have cost for two products and you want to sum for levels separately
for product A and B then you have to introduce the Col for product also in
the SUMPRODUCT formula...

Once you udnerstand the formula then you can build it yourself

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A100D1),--(B1:B100="C"),(C1:C100))
what the above does is find the rows where cell value in Col A is greater
than D1 AND cell value in Col B is equal to "C" and sum the values in Col C
for those rows...
A1:A100D1 give your TRUE or FALSE. -- in front converts them to 1 and 0...
Essentailly SUMPRODUCT multiplies the values it gets for each set within it...

Since you get 0 when conditions are not met 0 is added for those rows and
acutal values for others.

Hope this makes sense..

Let me know if you need further help.
"mmccoog" wrote:

Thank you Sheeloo. That was extremely helpful. The first example was exactly
what I was looking for. The only problem is, I want the sum function to stop
when it hits a level that is equal or higher than the level on the current
line. Is that possible?

"Sheeloo" wrote:

Your question is not clear, however
Assuming your Levels are in Col A, indicated by 1,2,3,4
Col B indicates whether it is a cost by "C" and Sum by "S"
and you have acutal values in Col C,
then you can sum up cost at a given level
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A100=D1),--(B1:B100="C"),(C1:C100))

where D1 contains the level (1,2 ,3 or 4)

If you want to sum level 3 AND 4 then you can have
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A100D1),--(B1:B100="C"),(C1:C100))
with D2 having the value 2


"mmccoog" wrote:

Hello,
I have a rather complex question but limited experience with excel. I have a
family tree type of file and need to calculate costs based on the lower level
costs.
Example:
Level 1 AAAA sum of levels 2 ($17)
Level 2 BBBB $5
Level 2 CCCC sum of levels 3 ($12)
Level 3 DDD sum of level 4 ($5)
Level 4 EEE $5
Level 3 FFF $7

Each record has the level code and an indicator to tell if it's a sum or if
it has the cost. I'm able to do this manually but the files can become large
and this takes a while to process, level by level. Hopefully this make sense
and there's an easy way to do this.