Sumif function wih concatenate function as criteria

[Here2Learn]

This is my first question here so bear with me

I am using concatenate function as criteria in sumif i noticed that the end results were wrong because only part of the result of the concatenate are taking into account by the sumif.

Can somebody help?

 

[barry houdini]

Hello Here2Learn, welcome to MrExcel

Can you post the formula you are using?

 

[CWatts]

Perhaps this? The & operator does the same as concatenate and I prefer it to keep my formulas shorter.

Sheet1

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