Help with sumifs

[karerock]

Hello,
I am a complete novice when it comes to logical excel formulas and I have a challenging task at work. I was asked to find the sums of certain schools with a specific month as a criteria.

I am having trouble writing a formula that pulls anything greater than or equal to a month with a specific field. I wrote a very simplified example of the way my data is laid out. How can I find the total sum for School 1, with dates >= apr. Mind you, I will be working with thousands of rows and the Sum if will be on a separate sheet than the data. I would really like to get some practice in and know how to do a Sum or Pivot. Thanks in advance!


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School	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
School 1	12	12	1	2
School 2	1	2	3	4
School 3	1	2	3	4
School 4	1	2	3	4
School 5	2	2	3	4
School 6	1	2	3	4

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[PaddyD]

Hi - welcome to the board.

How is your data set up? If its got a nice, simple data structure with three columns:

School | Date| Amount

...then you can just use a pivot table, no formulas required.

Post back with a bit more info about your source data - a worked example helps.

 

[karerock]

Thank you for replying!

I'm not sure Pivot would be the best option because I will be pulling sums from other sheets later on. There will be actuals, quota, etc. I can't use Power Pivot because my colleagues have Macs and it isn't compatible. Is there a way to use a Sumif for the information I provided? I feel like if I can get some practice in, it will be easy to apply for future use. <style><!--table {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\."; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}@page {margin:.75in .7in .75in .7in; mso-header-margin:.3in; mso-footer-margin:.3in;}td {padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; mso-ignoreadding; color:black; font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif; mso-font-charset:0; mso-number-format:General; text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; border:none; mso-background-source:auto; mso-pattern:auto; mso-protection:locked visible; white-space:nowrap; mso-rotate:0;}--></style><style><!--table {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\."; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}@page {margin:.75in .7in .75in .7in; mso-header-margin:.3in; mso-footer-margin:.3in;}td {padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; mso-ignoreadding; color:black; font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif; mso-font-charset:0; mso-number-format:General; text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; border:none; mso-background-source:auto; mso-pattern:auto; mso-protection:locked visible; white-space:nowrap; mso-rotate:0;}.xl63 {text-align:center;}--></style><style><!--table {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\."; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}@page {margin:.75in .7in .75in .7in; mso-header-margin:.3in; mso-footer-margin:.3in;}td {padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; mso-ignoreadding; color:black; font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif; mso-font-charset:0; mso-number-format:General; text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; border:none; mso-background-source:auto; mso-pattern:auto; mso-protection:locked visible; white-space:nowrap; mso-rotate:0;}--></style><style><!--table {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\."; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}@page {margin:.75in .7in .75in .7in; mso-header-margin:.3in; mso-footer-margin:.3in;}td {padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; mso-ignoreadding; color:black; font-size:12.0pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif; mso-font-charset:0; mso-number-format:General; text-align:general; vertical-align:bottom; border:none; mso-background-source:auto; mso-pattern:auto; mso-protection:locked visible; white-space:nowrap; mso-rotate:0;}--></style>

 

[AlanY]

it will be easier if you can add a dummy year in Row 1, like this

Excel 2013/2016
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	School	Jan-18	Feb-18	Mar-18	Apr-18
2	School 1	12	12	1	2		School 1	Feb	15
3	School 2	1	2	3	4
4	School 3	1	2	3	4
5	School 4	1	2	3	4
6	School 5	2	2	3	4
7	School 6	1	2	3	4
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Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
I2	=SUMIFS(INDEX(B:E,MATCH(G2,A:A,0),0),INDEX(B:E,1,0),">="&(H2&"/18"))