Try
=SUMIF(A:A,"December",B:B)

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Jacob


"jojik" wrote:

JANUARY -44
JUNE - 20
FEBRUARY - 37
DECEMBER - 56
JUNE - 96
JUNE - 56
SEPTEMBER - 46
OCTOBER - 15
NOVEMBER - 87
DECEMBER - 66
DECEMBER - 12

dear All, i have this data in 2 columns and I want to show automatically in
one cell as 'december' and in the next cell the total of december (134).
please help me to sort out this. thanks in advance.