Formulas to pull hours and dollars based on dept type

[bh24524]

Hi, I have a spreadsheet that has 2 tabs. The first tab is just an overall dept. Summary tab to ideally give hour totals and dollar totals based on information that is pasted weekly in the second tab. The headers in the first tab look like this:

	A	B	C
1	Dept Type	HOURS	Dollars
2	Warehouse Worker Regular
3	Warehouse Worker Overtime
4	Maintenance	N/A
5	Transportation	N/A
6	Mechanics	N/A
7	Warehouse Clerks	N/A
8	Inventory Clerks	N/A

They are only looking for hours for the Warehouse workers but they do want dollars for them and everyone else.


Tab two contains several different headers, but the ones relevant to here would be Earn Code (REG, Overtime, etc.), Hours Amount, Dollar Amount, and Position description
Here is where it gets a little tricky. Maintenance encompasses several positions, Battery Persons, Refrigeration Technicians, General Maintenance, and Parts Clerks, but they are all to be reported under one total - maintenance.

My question is can there be some kind of formula on tab 1 that will encompass the hour totals and dollar totals, and lump together what positions are within one department. What would be the best way to do this?

 

[bh24524]

Awesome, this works, I checked it and it is totaling only what I want it to, so thank you very much for all the help and troubleshooting! Something I am curious about though, why in this formula where you have (sheet2!B2:B100="REG") for example, Why can you not have (sheet2!B:B="REG") to basically just include the entire column? I did have to expand that 100 and just made it 9000 as there are several thousand rows worth of data each week but when I tried using (sheet2!B:B="REG"), it just gives an error message. Its not until I have an actual range in there like 2:9000 that it actually works. Do you know why this is so?

 

[kweaver]

Yes, you are correct. You can use the full column like you indicated. But, you have to be sure you use the full columns for EVERY comparison in the formula.