It's also an aesthetic thing, it looks 'righter' to me, although there are
instances where one works and the other doesn't and vice versa.

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HTH

Bob

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"ShaneDevenshire" wrote in
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Ah! so it's a speed issue, I hadn't tested that.
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"T. Valko" wrote:

Slightly more efficient.

If you have Excel 2002 or higher use the Evaluate Formula command and see
how many steps it takes each variation of the formula to calculate. I
would
use a small data set for this, like 5-10 rows.

If you actually timed the calculation the difference would probably be
negligible on a small dataset. But on a large dataset there is a
considerable difference.

Screecap:

average calc times for 10 rows and 10,000 rows

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4064/calctimesax7.jpg

Biff

"ShaneDevenshire" wrote in
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Hi,

What is the advantage of this over Roger's formula?

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"Bob Phillips" wrote:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A200="value1"),--(B2:B200="value2),C2:C200)

SP doesn't support full columns (not until Excel 200&), but specific
ranges.

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Bob

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"SteveS" wrote in message
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I want to sum values in column C based on a test of text values in
columns
A
& B. Sumif only seems to support testing the value of one column
not
two.
Is there a way to accomplish my goal?