On 20 Sty, 12:52, jonny wrote:
Hi,

I'm looking for a way to check the first 5 characters of a cell for a
certain value and if it equals that value to sum the value of another
cell e.g.

Column A, B,
ght991xyz, 10
ght887fht, 100
ght991xyz, 50
ght887fht, 7

So in the example above I'd want to check all rows where column A
starts with ght991 and then sums the value of column B. *So the result
of the above would be 60 (50+10).. Not that column A will always
contain digits after the first five, but only the first 5 will match.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards

The easisest thing that comes to my mind:

Make a column C, put this formula in it:

=IF((MID(A2;1;6)="ght991");B2;0)

It displays the column B number, if the first 6 chars of column A are
ght991, otherwise zero. Then you just have to sum all of column C and
you get the result.

Regards
lolo