For example, this sums for those values in A1:A10 that have prj anywhere in
them:

=SUMIF(A1:A10,"*prj*",B1:B10)

Remove the "*"'s to sum for only those that are simply prj

Tyro

"Karel" wrote in message
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I'm trying to sum column B (minutes) that have different decriptions in
column A. I want to sum only those descriptions that have the
abbreviation
of "PRJ" in them. Do I need to list out the entire descriptions somewhere
else?