I have a list of names (most repaeted several times) in column A that act as
a diary of work completed. I need excel to look at the names in column A and
then count / sum information found in another column. I have tried Vlookups,
if and countifs but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

DP

You may need Sumproduct, along the lines of:

=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A100="name")*(D1:D100))

Sumif should also work:

=SUMIF(A1:A100,"name",D1:D100)

and Countif if you want to count them:

=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"name")

I've assumed that the values you want to sum are in column D, and that
you have 100 rows of data - adjust to suit.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On May 19, 4:06*pm, DP wrote:
I have a list of names (most repaeted several times) in column A that act as
a diary of work completed. *I need excel to look at the names in column A and
then count / sum information found in another column. *I have tried Vlookups,
if and countifs but to no avail. *Any help would be appreciated.

DP

Assume the 2 col headers a "Name" & "XXX"
Build a pivot table, with "Name" placed in ROW area, & "XXX" placed twice in
DATA area (one as COUNT, the other as SUM). Then go to the pivot, drag DATA &
drop it over "Total", and you'd get the desired results, viz.: a uniques
listing of the names in col A, with corresponding counts & sums (from col
"XXX") in adjacent cols B and C
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"DP" wrote:
I have a list of names (most repeated several times) in column A that act as
a diary of work completed. I need excel to look at the names in column A and
then count / sum information found in another column. I have tried Vlookups,
if and countifs but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

DP