SUMIFS using dynamic array constant

[lsole]

Hello,

This is my first post on this forum. Thank you all for your help!

I'm trying to sum data in a cell when data in another sheet meet some criteria. The formula I'm using, which is working, is the following:

=SUM(SUMIFS(Data!$A:$A;Data!$B:$B;MONTH(B$1);Data!$C:$C;{"203*";"204*";"206*";"280*"}))

This formula I want to copy-paste in many other cells but I would like to avoid manually updating the array constant if the values change later. This I could do it with a named range (via Define name) but it is not straightforward to see which values are being used when there are many rows. I would prefer to have a column with cells containing these values for each row and somehow having them converted to an array constant. Is this possible?

I would prefer a solution which does not use VisualBasic as other users will use this file.

Thank you in advance!

Llorenc

[AliGW]

Welcome to the forum.

There are instructions at the top of the page explaining how to attach your sample workbook.

[XLent]

so, if you're saying you want to store 203*;204*;206*;280* in a cell then you could use something like below, where $C2 holds the delimited criterion

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in summary, in the above, you're not creating an inline array but rather you're creating an Array of criteria by splitting the delimited string into 1 to n individual elements
if you modify the string in C2 so the result in B2 should update accordingly... the substitute etc is a bit convoluted as you try to ensure the array of criteria is only as big as the number of elements in the delimited string.

edit: adding a worked example to illustrate, in case helpful.

[lsole]

Hello,

I don't get how this formula exactly works but it does, thank you very much!

I suppose it parses the string and outputs an array. I will have to investigate this use of row() and index().

Llorenc