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Forget SUMIF, COUNTIF and VLOOKUP
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The SUMIF function allows you to sum a range using one criteria. =SUMIF(a1:a11,"New York",b1:b11) In plain English sum range B1 to B11 if in the corresponding row of A1 to A11 the value is "New York". You can use only ONE criteria With SUMPRODUCT the same formula would look like this =SUMPRODUCT((a1:a11="New York")*(B1:B11)) But you can also have many criterias like in: =SUMPRODUCT((a1:a11="January")*(B1:B11="Product1") *(C1:C11="New York")*(D1:D11="Store1")*(E1:E11)) In plain English sum range E1 to E11 if in the corresponding row of A1 to A11 the value is "January" and if in the corresponding row of B1 to B11 the value is "Product1" and if in the corresponding row of C1 to C11 the value is "New York" and if in the corresponding row of D1 to D11 the value is "Store1" and if in the corresponding row of A1 to A11 the value is "a" When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. See these amazing formulas at work at: http://www.excel-vba.com/index-agent.htm Pierre Leclerc http://www.excel-vba.com |
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Answer: Forget SUMIF, COUNTIF and VLOOKUP
Hi there!
I completely agree with you that SUMPRODUCT is a powerful function that can replace SUMIF and COUNTIF. It allows you to use multiple criteria to sum or count a range of cells. And the best part is that it doesn't require you to use an array formula like SUMIFS or COUNTIFS. As for INDEX/MATCH, it's a great alternative to VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and LOOKUP. It's more flexible and efficient than VLOOKUP, especially when dealing with large datasets. With INDEX/MATCH, you can look up values in any column and return a value from any other column in the same row. Here's an example of how to use INDEX/MATCH:
I hope this helps you discover the power of these amazing formulas!
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Pierre Leclerc Wrote: ... When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. ... That's non-sense. Whenever a single condition involved, one should invoke CountIf for counting and SumIf for summing. Moreover, if efficiency (speed) is a concern, one should try to reduce 2 or more conditions to a single condition by concatenating them and invoke a CountIf or SumIf formula or a SumProduct or an array formula using Count or Sum with a lesser number of conditionals. Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. ... The generality of INDEX/MATCH is no reason to dispense with VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP. And there are classes of lookup problems Index/Match cannot solve, but LOOKUP can. -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 |
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Hi Aladin
could you please provide an example of what you mean by "..... one should try to reduce 2 or more conditions to a single condition by concatenating them ...." Cheers JulieD "Aladin Akyurek" wrote in message ... Pierre Leclerc Wrote: ... When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. ... That's non-sense. Whenever a single condition involved, one should invoke CountIf for counting and SumIf for summing. Moreover, if efficiency (speed) is a concern, one should try to reduce 2 or more conditions to a single condition by concatenating them and invoke a CountIf or SumIf formula or a SumProduct or an array formula using Count or Sum with a lesser number of conditionals. Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. ... The generality of INDEX/MATCH is no reason to dispense with VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP. And there are classes of lookup problems Index/Match cannot solve, but LOOKUP can. -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 |
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Pierre Leclerc wrote: When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Hard to imagine forgetting =COUNTIF(A:A,"*a*") in order to use something like =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a",$A$1:$A$65535))) COUNTIF is *FAR* faster, can operate on entire columns/rows, and has the advantage of being easily interpreted. How would you replace =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre") using SUMPRODUCT()? Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. I disagree. Aside from the fact that VLOOKUP is somewhat more efficient than INDEX/MATCH in most cases, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP usually have the advantage of being more readable. That goes a long way toward reducing errors in spreadsheets. |
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I don't think this thread is worth continuing.
I think Pierre is evangelising on something he doesn't properly understand. A couple of his responses today have demonstrated this, he suggested a -- SP formula was wrong and should be using * (and he tested the same condition twice for good measure), and said that Domenic's double lookup formula didn't work whereas his SP one did. As it happened, his SP one did work, but so did Domenic's, and as Domenic pointed out, Pierre's would not work if the result to be returned were text. I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). Bob "JE McGimpsey" wrote in message ... In article , Pierre Leclerc wrote: When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Hard to imagine forgetting =COUNTIF(A:A,"*a*") in order to use something like =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a",$A$1:$A$65535))) COUNTIF is *FAR* faster, can operate on entire columns/rows, and has the advantage of being easily interpreted. How would you replace =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre") using SUMPRODUCT()? Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. I disagree. Aside from the fact that VLOOKUP is somewhat more efficient than INDEX/MATCH in most cases, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP usually have the advantage of being more readable. That goes a long way toward reducing errors in spreadsheets. |
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Hi Bob
couldn't agree more <vbg -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany "Bob Phillips" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I don't think this thread is worth continuing. I think Pierre is evangelising on something he doesn't properly understand. A couple of his responses today have demonstrated this, he suggested a -- SP formula was wrong and should be using * (and he tested the same condition twice for good measure), and said that Domenic's double lookup formula didn't work whereas his SP one did. As it happened, his SP one did work, but so did Domenic's, and as Domenic pointed out, Pierre's would not work if the result to be returned were text. I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). Bob "JE McGimpsey" wrote in message ... In article , Pierre Leclerc wrote: When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Hard to imagine forgetting =COUNTIF(A:A,"*a*") in order to use something like =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a",$A$1:$A$65535))) COUNTIF is *FAR* faster, can operate on entire columns/rows, and has the advantage of being easily interpreted. How would you replace =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre") using SUMPRODUCT()? Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. I disagree. Aside from the fact that VLOOKUP is somewhat more efficient than INDEX/MATCH in most cases, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP usually have the advantage of being more readable. That goes a long way toward reducing errors in spreadsheets. |
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Bob Phillips Wrote: I don't think this thread is worth continuing. [...] I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). [...] Au contraire. Pierre Leclerc, for all we know, might believe what he states. There are lots of spreadsheet users who end up thinking the same, seeing 'thousends of Sumproduct or array formulas' offered by us here and elsewhere. More often than not without concern for efficiency and robustness. Leclerc's post is an excellent occasion to re-consider such matters. -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 |
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Julie, Suppose we have {"Item","Location","Qty";"a","loc1",58;"b","loc1", 71;"a","loc2",70;"a","loc1",39;"b","loc2",73;"c"," loc1",65;"c","loc1",63;"b","loc2",54} in A1:C9 and we want a summary count per item and per location. Instead of invoking a formula with SumProduct or Count/If or Sum/If for multi-conditional counting, we can concatenate Item and Location and invoke a SumIf formula instead: D2, copied down: =A2&","&B2 Let F3:F5 house: {"a";"b";"c"}, the items of interest. Let G2:H2 house: {"loc1","loc2"} G3, copied across then down: =SUMIF($D$2:$D$9,$F3&","&G$2,$C$2:$C$9) would give us the multi-conditional counts we need. This set up trades off cell space (memory) against speed (time). JulieD Wrote: Hi Aladin could you please provide an example of what you mean by "..... one should try to reduce 2 or more conditions to a single condition by concatenating them ...." Cheers JulieD "Aladin Akyurek" wrote in message ... Pierre Leclerc Wrote: ... When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. ... That's non-sense. Whenever a single condition involved, one should invoke CountIf for counting and SumIf for summing. Moreover, if efficiency (speed) is a concern, one should try to reduce 2 or more conditions to a single condition by concatenating them and invoke a CountIf or SumIf formula or a SumProduct or an array formula using Count or Sum with a lesser number of conditionals. Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. ... The generality of INDEX/MATCH is no reason to dispense with VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP. And there are classes of lookup problems Index/Match cannot solve, but LOOKUP can. -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 |
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Aladin,
I agree that things are always worth reconsidering, but even if Pierre really believes what he states, and after hearing him and looking at his website I am sure he does, there have been occasions where he was inaccurate, and SUMPRODUCT is not the answer to life, the universe and everything. It is one thing to offer a solution to a particular problem, even if that is not the fastest, quickest or most elegant, it is completely another to then put forward a proposition as offered in the original posting. Bob "Aladin Akyurek" wrote in message ... Bob Phillips Wrote: I don't think this thread is worth continuing. [...] I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). [...] Au contraire. Pierre Leclerc, for all we know, might believe what he states. There are lots of spreadsheet users who end up thinking the same, seeing 'thousends of Sumproduct or array formulas' offered by us here and elsewhere. More often than not without concern for efficiency and robustness. Leclerc's post is an excellent occasion to re-consider such matters. -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 |
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Bob
Here it is SUMPRODUCT replacing COUNTIF =SUMPRODUCT((A1:E500="Pierre")*(A1:E500="Pierre")) On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:19:50 -0000, "Bob Phillips" wrote: I don't think this thread is worth continuing. I think Pierre is evangelising on something he doesn't properly understand. A couple of his responses today have demonstrated this, he suggested a -- SP formula was wrong and should be using * (and he tested the same condition twice for good measure), and said that Domenic's double lookup formula didn't work whereas his SP one did. As it happened, his SP one did work, but so did Domenic's, and as Domenic pointed out, Pierre's would not work if the result to be returned were text. I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). Bob "JE McGimpsey" wrote in message ... In article , Pierre Leclerc wrote: When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Hard to imagine forgetting =COUNTIF(A:A,"*a*") in order to use something like =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a",$A$1:$A$65535))) COUNTIF is *FAR* faster, can operate on entire columns/rows, and has the advantage of being easily interpreted. How would you replace =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre") using SUMPRODUCT()? Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. I disagree. Aside from the fact that VLOOKUP is somewhat more efficient than INDEX/MATCH in most cases, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP usually have the advantage of being more readable. That goes a long way toward reducing errors in spreadsheets. Pierre Leclerc www.excel-vba.com 1-800-501-6760 |
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Pierre
This is shorter =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:E500="Pierre") and shorter =COUNTIF(A1:E500,"Pierre") KL "Pierre Leclerc" wrote in message ... Bob Here it is SUMPRODUCT replacing COUNTIF =SUMPRODUCT((A1:E500="Pierre")*(A1:E500="Pierre")) On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:19:50 -0000, "Bob Phillips" wrote: I don't think this thread is worth continuing. I think Pierre is evangelising on something he doesn't properly understand. A couple of his responses today have demonstrated this, he suggested a -- SP formula was wrong and should be using * (and he tested the same condition twice for good measure), and said that Domenic's double lookup formula didn't work whereas his SP one did. As it happened, his SP one did work, but so did Domenic's, and as Domenic pointed out, Pierre's would not work if the result to be returned were text. I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). Bob "JE McGimpsey" wrote in message ... In article , Pierre Leclerc wrote: When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Hard to imagine forgetting =COUNTIF(A:A,"*a*") in order to use something like =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a",$A$1:$A$65535))) COUNTIF is *FAR* faster, can operate on entire columns/rows, and has the advantage of being easily interpreted. How would you replace =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre") using SUMPRODUCT()? Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. I disagree. Aside from the fact that VLOOKUP is somewhat more efficient than INDEX/MATCH in most cases, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP usually have the advantage of being more readable. That goes a long way toward reducing errors in spreadsheets. Pierre Leclerc www.excel-vba.com 1-800-501-6760 |
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You're seriously suggesting that performing a 655350 cell x 655350 cell
matrix multiplication, followed by a SUM instead of a COUNTIF????? Remember, the original question was =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre"), and your formula doesn't cover the entire column. Even one of those formulae is enough to *seriously* slow down a worksheet recalc A hammer's a useful tool, and it can be used to drive screws. But that's not its best use. In article , Pierre Leclerc wrote: Here it is SUMPRODUCT replacing COUNTIF =SUMPRODUCT((A1:E500="Pierre")*(A1:E500="Pierre")) |
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Just to illustrate the efficiency issue raised above - try to copy your
formula (or even my shorter version) across say 500 rows and 30 columns and recalcuate with a timer in hand. On my system P4 1.8 GHZ 512 MB RAM the results were as foolows: =SUMPRODUCT((A1:E500="Pierre")*(A1:E500="Pierre")) - 54 sec. =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:E500="Pierre") - 20 sec. =COUNTIF(A1:E500,"Pierre") - 10 sec. Regards, KL "KL" wrote in message ... Pierre This is shorter =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:E500="Pierre") and shorter =COUNTIF(A1:E500,"Pierre") KL "Pierre Leclerc" wrote in message ... Bob Here it is SUMPRODUCT replacing COUNTIF =SUMPRODUCT((A1:E500="Pierre")*(A1:E500="Pierre")) On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:19:50 -0000, "Bob Phillips" wrote: I don't think this thread is worth continuing. I think Pierre is evangelising on something he doesn't properly understand. A couple of his responses today have demonstrated this, he suggested a -- SP formula was wrong and should be using * (and he tested the same condition twice for good measure), and said that Domenic's double lookup formula didn't work whereas his SP one did. As it happened, his SP one did work, but so did Domenic's, and as Domenic pointed out, Pierre's would not work if the result to be returned were text. I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). Bob "JE McGimpsey" wrote in message ... In article , Pierre Leclerc wrote: When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Hard to imagine forgetting =COUNTIF(A:A,"*a*") in order to use something like =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a",$A$1:$A$65535))) COUNTIF is *FAR* faster, can operate on entire columns/rows, and has the advantage of being easily interpreted. How would you replace =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre") using SUMPRODUCT()? Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. I disagree. Aside from the fact that VLOOKUP is somewhat more efficient than INDEX/MATCH in most cases, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP usually have the advantage of being more readable. That goes a long way toward reducing errors in spreadsheets. Pierre Leclerc www.excel-vba.com 1-800-501-6760 |
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Two points
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:E500="Pierre")) does it just as well and with less comparisons (did you read the link I provided?0, and why replace COUNTIF, it works fine? -- HTH RP (remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct) "Pierre Leclerc" wrote in message ... Bob Here it is SUMPRODUCT replacing COUNTIF =SUMPRODUCT((A1:E500="Pierre")*(A1:E500="Pierre")) On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:19:50 -0000, "Bob Phillips" wrote: I don't think this thread is worth continuing. I think Pierre is evangelising on something he doesn't properly understand. A couple of his responses today have demonstrated this, he suggested a -- SP formula was wrong and should be using * (and he tested the same condition twice for good measure), and said that Domenic's double lookup formula didn't work whereas his SP one did. As it happened, his SP one did work, but so did Domenic's, and as Domenic pointed out, Pierre's would not work if the result to be returned were text. I suggest that a generic answer to everyone is to ignore this post, and understand that there are appropriate times to use SUMIF/COUNTIF, appropriate times to use array formulae, appropriate times to use VLOOKUP, and appropriate times to use SUMPRODUCT. There is no universal theory of everything in Excel formulae :-). Bob "JE McGimpsey" wrote in message ... In article , Pierre Leclerc wrote: When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. Hard to imagine forgetting =COUNTIF(A:A,"*a*") in order to use something like =SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a",$A$1:$A$65535))) COUNTIF is *FAR* faster, can operate on entire columns/rows, and has the advantage of being easily interpreted. How would you replace =COUNTIF(A:J,"Pierre") using SUMPRODUCT()? Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. I disagree. Aside from the fact that VLOOKUP is somewhat more efficient than INDEX/MATCH in most cases, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP usually have the advantage of being more readable. That goes a long way toward reducing errors in spreadsheets. Pierre Leclerc www.excel-vba.com 1-800-501-6760 |
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I love it...the SUMPRODUCT thing Here is my approach (I will use a tool example like like JE). I am an empowerer, I love to help people solve their problem. Learning one function is easier than learning two or more functions. It is like these multi-heads screwdrivers, most ordinary people use them rather than sets of screwdrivers. When I was much younger, I was a mechanic and I had very sophisticated tools but my clients had less and I knew that they could do it anyway. So I developed ways of doing things with ordinary tools rather than expensive tools. And it worked. I am not in the business of Excel to make people feel powerless, I am in the Excel business to help people handle their own problems. My goal is not to show that I am intelligent but to be useful. And it works. I have help hundreds of people develop skills to handle their own problems. A lot of computer people had to make things happen with less usage of memory and it ended up with the 2000 bug. We are not limited anymore and I have never yet seen users having to handle 65,000 records of 256 fields. So efficient tools..... Thanks again for both tips. Regards On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:40:35 +0100, "KL" wrote: =SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:E500="Pierre") Pierre Leclerc www.excel-vba.com 1-800-501-6760 |
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Hi Aladin
thanks for this, makes more sense now Cheers JulieD "Aladin Akyurek" wrote in message ... Julie, Suppose we have {"Item","Location","Qty";"a","loc1",58;"b","loc1", 71;"a","loc2",70;"a","loc1",39;"b","loc2",73;"c"," loc1",65;"c","loc1",63;"b","loc2",54} in A1:C9 and we want a summary count per item and per location. Instead of invoking a formula with SumProduct or Count/If or Sum/If for multi-conditional counting, we can concatenate Item and Location and invoke a SumIf formula instead: D2, copied down: =A2&","&B2 Let F3:F5 house: {"a";"b";"c"}, the items of interest. Let G2:H2 house: {"loc1","loc2"} G3, copied across then down: =SUMIF($D$2:$D$9,$F3&","&G$2,$C$2:$C$9) would give us the multi-conditional counts we need. This set up trades off cell space (memory) against speed (time). JulieD Wrote: Hi Aladin could you please provide an example of what you mean by "..... one should try to reduce 2 or more conditions to a single condition by concatenating them ...." Cheers JulieD "Aladin Akyurek" wrote in message ... Pierre Leclerc Wrote: ... When you discover the SUMPRODUCT formula, you can forget about COUNTIF and SUMIF. ... That's non-sense. Whenever a single condition involved, one should invoke CountIf for counting and SumIf for summing. Moreover, if efficiency (speed) is a concern, one should try to reduce 2 or more conditions to a single condition by concatenating them and invoke a CountIf or SumIf formula or a SumProduct or an array formula using Count or Sum with a lesser number of conditionals. Also when you discover INDEX/MATCH you can replace VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and LOOKUP. ... The generality of INDEX/MATCH is no reason to dispense with VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP. And there are classes of lookup problems Index/Match cannot solve, but LOOKUP can. -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 -- Aladin Akyurek ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aladin Akyurek's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...fo&userid=4165 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=319150 |
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