Vlookup and SUM

[minxy11]

hi, i am wanting to use vlookup and sum funtion together but dont know how, i am using a table for transactions (employee names and prices). what i want to do is search the transactions and add up the total sales per person.
thanks

[Biff]

Hi!

See if this is what you're after:

Column A = names
Column B = price

=SUMIF(A:A,"some_name",B:B)

Biff

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> hi, i am wanting to use vlookup and sum funtion together but dont know
> how, i am using a table for transactions (employee names and prices).
> what i want to do is search the transactions and add up the total sales
> per person.
> thanks
>
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[Sridhar V]

Hi,

You can try this

Name Sales
(Column A) (Column B)
A 100
B 200
C 300
A 1000
B 2000
C 3000

SUMIF(range,criteria,[sum_range])
=SUMIF(A:A,"B",B:B)

I Hope this will help you.

Sridhar

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> hi, i am wanting to use vlookup and sum funtion together but dont know
> how, i am using a table for transactions (employee names and prices).
> what i want to do is search the transactions and add up the total sales
> per person.
> thanks
>
>
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[CarlosAntenna]

With a Pivot Table you could sum up the sales for all your people at once.
I do this all the time for our sales force. I also sum up sales by
customer. It's really fast and easy.

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Carlos

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> how, i am using a table for transactions (employee names and prices).
> what i want to do is search the transactions and add up the total sales
> per person.
> thanks
>
>
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