Comments on: Sumif and Countif Formulas in Excel

By: CHuck Evans

CHuck Evans — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:14:11 +0000

I have a Q I can’t figure out. In my Database divided into weekly worksheets, I have 2 cols of interest by day: the date and the P&L. Then in my daily summary have a number of transactions each day
(for example: countif(A13:A45, “mar 8″) = 7
If I have transactions over a count of 4, I want a sum of those >4 transactions. So here I want to sum trans 5,6,7.
I have been playing w/ SUMIF but can’t get it to work. I use the datecol for the the range, the countif function for the criteria and the P&L in the sum_range, but it doens’t like it

Thanks
Chuck

By: john

john — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:12:50 +0000

Is that the whole formula that you would need or does it get progressively larger… for example if there is a 3 then it needs multiplied by 3.4?

By: Rayann

Rayann — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:49:07 +0000

Having a real hard time, and it’s a formula i have used before, but cannot for the life of me remember how to do this. Lets say i have a total amount in cell A3 that if cell B2 has a 1, i want to multiply cell A3 by 1.1 to give a total in cell B3. If there is a 2 in cell B2, i want it to multiply cell A3 by 2.3 to give me a new total in cell B3. How in the world do i do this?

By: john

john — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:19:51 +0000

If the header line count and subtotals are all the same #, then couldn’t you just do a count or counta with those other lines subtracted? If you’re maybe specific, maybe we can come up with a solution.

By: Macie

Macie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:46:22 +0000

I would like to know the formula for a line count. I produce a large spreadsheet and put in all my formulas, then break it down to individual tabs. Maintaining the master tab as ALL information and subsequent tabs broken down to salesman specific. Without having to look at the sheet. figure out the number of header lines, subtract those and the total line… I would like to just have a field populate the number of lines including on the sheet. Something like a summatin but not because I don’t want to add anything, just get a line count.

Thank you!
Macie

By: john

john — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:41:03 +0000

Hi PK – thanks for the encouragement. I’m glad you are finding the site useful.

By: P K Gambhir

P K Gambhir — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:26:03 +0000

Very useful for excel user community. A good job. Keep it up.

By: Mils

Mils — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:34:43 +0000

Hi,

Re:Vlookups/ Hlookups. I have a calendarized spreadsheet that goes from Jan to Feb and in each cell l’m pulling data through from a data sheet with H/Vlookups for each respective month.

Issue: The problem is when l’ve got the formula working fine in January and l want to copy and paste it through to December, how can l do this without manually going into each month and changing the column reference i.e. let say January vlookup is looking at column 2 in the master data sheet then Feb should pull through coulmn 3 and March column 4 and so on. Usually what happens is that all months will reference column 2 only.

Thanks for your help.

By: john

john — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:20:30 +0000

I’m actually going to probably right a post about this soon, because it was a good question that many others might find useful.

By: john

john — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:19:12 +0000

Hi Mils – Great question.

It might be slightly different depending on what version of Excel you are using. Give this a shot though.

Select all the cells you want to be able to edit the numbers for, select Format Cells and find the tab or section where you can uncheck “Locked” for the cell protection. Make all the formatting changes you want to make and then protect the sheet. By default, Excel will only allow users to edit the cell values and not the formatting.

In Excel 2007, I know there are options where you can allow users to also edit the formatting, but that is not the default setting.

Hopefully that answers your question and thanks for stopping by Excel Hints!

John