Perform logical operations by using the SUMIF function

SUMIF(range, criteria, [sum_range])

The SUMIF function syntax has the following arguments:

range   Required. The range of cells that you want evaluated by criteria. Cells in each range must be numbers or names, arrays, or references that contain numbers. Blank and text values are ignored. The selected range may contain dates in standard Excel format (examples below).

Criteria Required. The criteria in the form of a number, expression, a cell reference, text, or a function that defines which cells will be added. Wildcard characters can be included – a question mark (?) to match any single character, an asterisk (*) to match any sequence of characters. If you want to find an actual question mark or asterisk, type a tilde (~) preceding the character.

For example, criteria can be expressed as 32, “>32”, B5, “3?”, “apple*”, “*~?”, or TODAY().

sum_range   Optional. The actual cells to add, if you want to add cells other than those specified in the range argument. If the sum range argument is omitted, Excel adds the cells that are specified in the range argument (the same cells to which the criteria is applied).

Sum_range should be the same size and shape as range. If it isn’t, performance may suffer, and the formula will sum a range of cells that starts with the first cell in sum_range but has the same dimensions as range. For example:

Example

Copy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter. If you need to, you can adjust the column widths to see all the data.

Copy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter. If you need to, you can adjust the column widths to see all the data.