Find a word in a table, then use a function
 

Hi everybody

I have a table with the days of the week, and the shifts for each one
eg
S1 Sun
S2 Sun
S3 Sun
S1 Mon
S2 Mon
etc
on column A
and in column B, the number of items manufactured

On another table, (column D) i have ONLY the days
Sun
Mon
Tue
etc

What I want to do is to sum in column E the total for each day, by reference
to column D
something like "find this value in the other table, and add them"

usually i would have use the sumif
my problem is with the shifts
so i need to find the cells that contains especific text to sum

Find a word in a table, then use a function
 

Try this in E1:

=SUMPRODUCT((A$1:A$21<"")*(RIGHT(A$1:A$21,3)=D1)* (B$1:B$21))

then copy into E2:E7.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Oct 2, 5:14*pm, Alonso wrote:
Hi everybody

I have a table with the days of the week, and the shifts for each one
eg
S1 Sun
S2 Sun
S3 Sun
S1 Mon
S2 Mon
etc
on column A
and in column B, the number of items manufactured

On another table, (column D) i have ONLY the days
Sun
Mon
Tue
etc

What I want to do is to sum in column E the total for each day, by reference
to column D
something like "find this value in the other table, and add them"

usually i would have use the sumif
my problem is with the shifts
so i need to find the cells that contains especific text to sum

Find a word in a table, then use a function
 

Thanks Pete

it worked just great


"Pete_UK" wrote:

Try this in E1:

=SUMPRODUCT((A$1:A$21<"")*(RIGHT(A$1:A$21,3)=D1)* (B$1:B$21))

then copy into E2:E7.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Oct 2, 5:14 pm, Alonso wrote:
Hi everybody

I have a table with the days of the week, and the shifts for each one
eg
S1 Sun
S2 Sun
S3 Sun
S1 Mon
S2 Mon
etc
on column A
and in column B, the number of items manufactured

On another table, (column D) i have ONLY the days
Sun
Mon
Tue
etc

What I want to do is to sum in column E the total for each day, by reference
to column D
something like "find this value in the other table, and add them"

usually i would have use the sumif
my problem is with the shifts
so i need to find the cells that contains especific text to sum

Find a word in a table, then use a function
 

Glad to hear it - thanks for feeding back.

Pete

On Oct 2, 5:58*pm, Alonso wrote:
Thanks Pete

it worked just great