Us MAXIF and MINIF, and I agree with that, because MAXIFS will do both, alright.Įxcel vNext, or maybe we can just, you know, look at the, it'll be about ExcelĢ026, they'll probably add another batch of these, and I'm hoping for ROMANIFS Note here, they no longer feel compelled to give
Then several years later, Excel 2016, notĪll versions, you have to be an Office 365 and the February 2016 release, theyĪdded MAXIFS, MINIFS, and IFS. Excel 2007 introduce SUMIFS, and introducedĬOUNTIFS, it's shortened SUMIF/COUNTIF into AVERAGEIF, and then gave us the Shoot that down, and we can see for each of these people how many Widgets, how Alright, so Allan Matz, 1290 widgets and 253 gadgets, double-click to That's equal to Widget, in this case I press F4 2 times lock it down to just NextĬondition, go look through all the product names over in column C, F4, see if Is allowed to change, but the F’s going to be locked down, comma. Right, so I want to press F4 3 times, that puts a single $ before the F, the 4 Now, I need to be able to copy this to the So theĬriteria range 1 is look at all the reps over in column B, I'll press F4 and That's what we're going to add up, and then criteria range and criteria. Specified, they reverse that and it's the first thing we specify. Now, here's the weird thing, usually the sum range was the last thing we It'll handle one condition, or 126-127 conditions, or something like that. Really you can start using SUMIFS for everything, because it's very versatile, Have to check both column B and column C. That’s where we want to see how many units Allan Matz sold of Widgets, so we You had to switch over to using SUMPRODUCT, and I'm glad Iĭon't have to explain SUMPRODUCT, at least not for this.īecause now in Excel 2007, they gave us SUMIFS, COUNTIF would tell us how many orders there wereįor each of those people, but this became a massive problem, when we had two or When we copy that down, we can see what each person did. So SUMIF looks through Allan Matz, found 1543 units, and But that was bad advice, because when you do that, this formulaīecomes volatile, and that's a bad thing, you never want to have volatileįormulas, alright. Noted that you could just put D2 there, and it will automatically make the Press F4, “see if it's equal to Allan Matz, comma, and if it is, add up theĬorresponding cell from column D!” Alright, now hey, in the past, I might have Says “Go look through the range of rep names over there in column B,” I'll
Introduced two great functions called SUMIF and COUNTIF, here's SUMIF. Learn Excel from MrExcel podcast, episodeĪlright, I am podcasting out all of my tipsįrom this book, click the “i” on the top-right hand corner to get to theīack in the old, old days of Excel 97, they Thanks to Nathi Njoko, Abshir Osman, Scott Russell, and Ryan Sitoy. All of these "S" functions are very efficient and fast. In the following formula, you are summing D2:D22, but only the rows where column B is Allen Matz and column C is Widget.Įxcel 2007 also added plural versions of COUNTIFS and AVERAGEIFS. Because you might have an indeterminate number of conditions in the function, the numbers that you are adding up move from the third argument to the first argument. (I realize most people would replace my multiplication signs with commas and add a double-minus before the first two terms, but mine works, too.)
But if you had two or more things to check, you had to switch over to SUMPRODUCT. SUMIF and COUNTIF were great when you only had one condition.
(I realize that most people would use $D$2:$D$22 as the last argument, but you only have to specify the top cell.) If a name is equal to the name in F4, then sum the corresponding cell from the range starting in D2. In the figure below, the formula tells Excel to look through the names in B2:B22. The old SUMIF and COUNTIF have been around since Excel 97. The new, superior SUMIFS handles up to 127 conditions.ĭid you notice the “S” that got added to the end of SUMIF starting in Excel 2007? While SUMIF and SUMIFS sound the same, the new SUMIFS can run circles around its elder sibling. But they could only handle one condition. SUMIF and COUNTIF were great when they were introduced in Excel 97.