Comparing more than two
 

I have a spreadsheet that tracks Date, Salesman and Sale Amount in separate
columns with information over a year. How do I do an analysis of monthly
sales for each salesman individually.
I tried sumif(and but cannot seem to make it work? I am sure there is a way.

Comparing more than two
 

Use a Pivot Table, that is the easiest way!!!

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot02.html
http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Pivots/pivottables.htm

Regards,
Ryan---

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RyGuy


"Vern" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that tracks Date, Salesman and Sale Amount in separate
columns with information over a year. How do I do an analysis of monthly
sales for each salesman individually.
I tried sumif(and but cannot seem to make it work? I am sure there is a way.

Comparing more than two
 

What are you hoping to end up with? A table like this:

1 2 3 4 5 etc
Salesman_1
Salesman_2
Salesman_3

and so on? Where the numbers across the top are the months and the
salesmen's names are down column A? Will you only have a single year's worth
of data in your file, then how would you like the different years to be
treated?

You can use a single SUMPRODUCT formula in cell B1 to do this, and that can
then be copied across and down. The actual details will depend on your data
layout and number of records - could you post some more details, please?

Hope this helps.

Pete

"Vern" wrote in message
...
I have a spreadsheet that tracks Date, Salesman and Sale Amount in separate
columns with information over a year. How do I do an analysis of monthly
sales for each salesman individually.
I tried sumif(and but cannot seem to make it work? I am sure there is a
way.

Comparing more than two
 

You could use the SUMPRODUCT function. Let's say Date is in Column A, Name
is in Column B, and Amount is in Column C.

=SUMPRODUCT(--(MONTH(A1:A100)=9),--(B1:B100="Smith"),C1:C100)

This should total all of Smith's sales for the month of September. If your
Date column spans multiple years, then you'd need to account for the year as
well.

HTH
Elkar

"Vern" wrote:

I have a spreadsheet that tracks Date, Salesman and Sale Amount in separate
columns with information over a year. How do I do an analysis of monthly
sales for each salesman individually.
I tried sumif(and but cannot seem to make it work? I am sure there is a way.

Comparing more than two
 

I use the spreadsheet to keep track of sales for the past year and a half. I
track sales by different type of product, supplier etc. but would like to
look at a salesman for each month as we go along. My current spreadsheet is
approx 20 columns by 500 rows - each row representing a new sale.

Thanks for looking into this.

Vern

"Pete_UK" wrote:

What are you hoping to end up with? A table like this:

1 2 3 4 5 etc
Salesman_1
Salesman_2
Salesman_3

and so on? Where the numbers across the top are the months and the
salesmen's names are down column A? Will you only have a single year's worth
of data in your file, then how would you like the different years to be
treated?

You can use a single SUMPRODUCT formula in cell B1 to do this, and that can
then be copied across and down. The actual details will depend on your data
layout and number of records - could you post some more details, please?

Hope this helps.

Pete

"Vern" wrote in message
...
I have a spreadsheet that tracks Date, Salesman and Sale Amount in separate
columns with information over a year. How do I do an analysis of monthly
sales for each salesman individually.
I tried sumif(and but cannot seem to make it work? I am sure there is a
way.