I also would like to have a function, I would call ’sumif()’, doing almost the same like countif, but sum another column in the same range as I looked up.

Sample:

column A contains names, B numbers:

A B
—————-
Miller 5
Miller 8
Miller 3
Brown 6
Brown 7
Brown 4

so I’d like to do this:

sumif(A1:A6;”Miller”;B) but in a way, that automatic sum will be taken from B1:B3 ?

any ideas ? thanks LaoDe

countif shows only 0 in my sample !?

=COUNTIF(C4:C85;D93)

where Col C is a list of names, where 1 name can apear more than 1 time. There are also empty cells.

I also tried with filling empry cells with ‘A’ but no change !

Only when I hard-code the name in the formular like this:

=COUNTIF(C4:C85;”gongyou”)

I get a correct result !? I checked data-type, I format the lookup-colum D explicitly text, but nothing works !

what’s wrong here ?

cheers LaoDe