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Using Formula MONTH() in SUMIFS()
My simplified table looks like this - Date Category Amount 8/1/2023 Housing $100.00 8/1/2023 Groceries $200.00 9/1/2023 Groceries $100.00 9/1/2023 Utilites $200.00 I am...
MONTH(A:A) is not a range but an array.
The criteria_range arguments of SUMIFS must be ranges, not arrays.
You can use SUMPRODUCT instead:
=SUMPRODUCT(C2:C1000, (MONTH(A2:A1000)=8)*(B2:B1000="Groceries"))
(I'd use finite ranges instead of entire columns for reasons of performance.)
Alternatively, create a helper column. For example enter the following formula in D2:
=MONTH(A2)
and fill down. You can then use
=SUMIFS(C:C, D:D, 8, B:B, "Groceries")
what if there were various words in the cells under the Category heading in each cell instead of just "Groceries"? Can you still isolate Groceries? If so, how? Ive seen "*...*" used in sumif and sumifs formulas
Using the example from higher up:
=SUMIFS(C2:C1000, B2:B1000, "*Groceries*")
and
=SUMPRODUCT(C2:C1000, (MONTH(A2:A1000)=8)*ISNUMBER(SEARCH("Groceries", B2:B1000)))
- Thank you
