Sumifs or index match

[N0t Y0urs]

Hi all

I have 15 columns of data with 25 rows each. The columns are broken into sets of 3 therefore giving me 5 different groups. These are number 1 - 5, while my rows are numbered 5, 10, … 500, and my columns are labelled FWD, DB and RB

Each group have the same columns but the values are different so what I want to do and get confused is the following:

If my criteria is 3 and 200 I would like to calculate the sum of FWD for the first 3 groups from the first row to the row labelled 200. It would be the same formula for the DB columns but for the RB column it would just be the sum of that column on row labelled 200.

I can get it to work for just one column but when I add the groups in I get confused.

This is what I currently have:

This is for my FWD and DB columns:
=INDEX($D$9:$D$27,MATCH($C$59,$B$9:$B$27))

Where D is group 1 DB, C is my second criteria and B is the row value that criteria is looking for

Then for the FWD column it’s the same only D becomes C

Then my RB column formula is:
=INDEX($E$9:$E$27,MATCH($C$59,$B$9:$B$27))

RB is column E.

So my sheet has these columns:

FWD: C, G, K, O and S
DB: D, H, L, P and T
RB: E, I, M, Q and U

Hope that makes sense as my working file is large. I’m working with 365 and Google sheets.

Thanks in advance

 

[N0t Y0urs]

Yes that what I want maybe I entered the wrong formula as that’s not what I get but leave it with me.

Thanks again and sorry to be a pain in the butt

 

[N0t Y0urs]

It works perfectly thanks, it must be me moving it to the position I want and not using eagle eyes.

Thanks again

 

[Marcelo Branco]

You're welcome. Glad to help.

M.

 

[N0t Y0urs]

Sorry I have one more question

How did you know sumproduct was the answer? I worked the solution backwards and understand it but never would have got there and trying to expand my knowledge

 

[Marcelo Branco]

How did you know sumproduct was the answer?

SUMIFS requires that the range to be summed and all other criteria be either all horizontal or all vertical and all the same size.

In your case there are two horizontal criteria (Groups and Codes) and one vertical (Row) and the range to be added is a matrix (C3:U27), that's why I used SUMPRODUCT.

M.

 

[Marcelo Branco]

For you to better understand when to use SUMIFS.
In the case of Code = RB we just sum the values in one row (in the case 200), so we have:
sum_range = C15:U15
criteria_range1 = C1:U1
criteria_range2 = C2:U2
All horizontal and the same size, so we could have used SUMIFS for Code=RB

M.

 

[N0t Y0urs]

Thanks that’s made things clearer