Sumif with match index

Krischke

Good day

I have a single sheet with the following:

Column A - multiselect of "work area"

Column B - "cost"

I want to create a formula in my sheet summary to sum the Cost (Column B) everywhere a specific "work area" is found in Column A.

I've tried the has function, but no success. I also tried match index. See sample formula I tried here

=SUMIF([Work area]:[work area], HAS([Work area]:[Work area], "Projects"), Cost:Cost)

Paul Newcome

Try this:

=SUMIF([Work area]:[work area], HAS(@cell, "Projects"), Cost:Cost)

Paul Newcome

Try this:

=SUMIF([Work area]:[work area], HAS(@cell, "Projects"), Cost:Cost)

Krischke

Thanks Paul, that worked

Krischke

@Paul Newcome would the HAS formula work if I had multiple items with Projects as a prefix to pick up all of them for example Projects - process, Projects - systems

Paul Newcome

You would need to switch to the CONTAINS function for that which has reversed syntax.

CONTAINS("Projects", @cell)

Krischke

Thanks Paul, that worked

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️