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I am trying to search and sum values
Hi,
I am tying to make a search and sum some datebase.
for example:
| A | B | C | D | E |
| fekaufland | 5 | Namirnice | ||
| wolt | 6 | kaufland | ||
| kaufland | 4 | lidl | ||
| konzum | 8 | konzum |
I need to seach for all words in column D in column A and when words are found sum there values and put it in E1.
I tryed with one word and its working. This is formula I used: =SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("kaufland";A2:A5));B2:B5;""))
But when I try to search for more words its not working.
This is formula I am trying: =SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(D2:D5;A2:A5));B2:B5;""))
Can someone help?
Carpusina The SEARCH part in your second formula returns an array of numbers or #VALUE errors. The IF function gets rid of the errors leaving a number when the words are matched in the same row. In your example only row5 has matching words "konzum" in both column A and D. The array that will be returned has three blanks and the number 8. SUM then returns 8.
You probably want to make use of a dynamic array function that will spill the result all at once.
Try this one in E2 and see if that does what you want:
=SUMIF(A2:A5;"*"&D2:D5&"*";B2:B5)
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Carpusina The SEARCH part in your second formula returns an array of numbers or #VALUE errors. The IF function gets rid of the errors leaving a number when the words are matched in the same row. In your example only row5 has matching words "konzum" in both column A and D. The array that will be returned has three blanks and the number 8. SUM then returns 8.
You probably want to make use of a dynamic array function that will spill the result all at once.
Try this one in E2 and see if that does what you want:
=SUMIF(A2:A5;"*"&D2:D5&"*";B2:B5)Hi, thank you for response. Your formula search and sum values but put answer in each row of searched word. I would like to put sum of those words that are found in one cell.
For example that I gave, I would like to put it in E1 and that results would need to be 17.
I hope I explained good.I tried to add sum before and worked great.
Thank you very much.
Or, using your original formula:
=SUM(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(TRANSPOSE(D2:D5),A2:A5))*B2:B5)
or
=SUM(IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(TRANSPOSE(D2:D5),A2:A5)),B2:B5))
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