sumif or sumifs

Singh,

This will work best if you remove the summary block and place it in a separate table. Then you can use SUMIF to designate Column A of the entries table as the search range, and Column D of the entries table as the sum range, without having to worry about where the end of the data range is.

Jerry

B17=SUMIF(A$3:A$14,A17, D$3:D$14)

select B17 and fill down

You should also make the following adjustments:

1) edit A17 thru A20 as shown (remove the text "Expense")

2) remove the text "US $" from all cells

3) format columns D and E as currency

Wayne,

Where Singh is from, US$ may be a valid Currency format prefix. I'm guessing, but it's a possibility.

Jerry

Jerry, Yes. That is why I added step (3). Since I copied the data from the OP post the US $ was simply text.

HI Wayne,

"Since I copied the data from the OP post the US $ was simply text."

Copied from the post, it would be text, as I doubt the webpage carries the formatting information specifying currency.

Unless Singh did the calculations in column E manually, though, I suspect the amounts in column D (and E) are numbers, formatted as currency, though. It's possibly a custom format, though. When I tried a variety of currencies from the list provided in the Inspector, none included a space between the currency symbol and the number.

Pasted into this message (below), then copied from here and pasted back into a copy of the table whence they came, only three were recognized as currency; the rest gave the error message shown in the screen shot.

Pasted values to copy:

Screen shot of result described above:

Note: Column A had been formatted to show Currency. The fact that some of these values had been interpreted as Text was initially masked, as the cells had adopted the alight right setting copied from the pasted table in Discussions. The screen shot shows the appearance after the cell alignment had been set to Automatic.

Regards,

Barry

Singh,

you cannot mix currencies. You must convert them all to the same currency

Hi Singh,

Here's a restatement of what Jerry and Wayne have provided above, using the same formula as it would appear in the case where the summary table is separate from the data table.

One advantage to separating the summary table from the data table is that range references can be specified as the whole column. Here's an example, usint a copy of the Data part of your table, and a separate Summary table, modeled after the summary part of your table.

The formula in B2 of the Summary table is shown below.

=SUMIF(Data :: $A,A2,Data :: D)

"Data" in the formula is the name of the large table. Change to match the name of your data table if necessary.

Enter the formula into B2 of the summary table, then fill down to the 'Cheque' row.

Regards,

Barry

HI Wayne,

"you cannot mix currencies. You must convert them all to the same currency"

I think you may be looking at my example above, an aside observation on Numbers representation of US$ in 'foreign' localizations.

Barry

Singh wrote:

Hi Jerrold.

Yup detaching the summary block helped, and is working albeit with a little hickup ie only the first entries of cash, cheque or card are being added, Should figure the correct formula.

Thanks for the inputs.

Regards

Singh

Now you are on the path to the Numbers way of designing spreadsheets. Keep the different tasks separate. One table for data entry, and another for summarizing.

Jerry