Formula Assistance with "="

[jcastellano]

I am trying to debug a spreadhseet and have come across this formula in the middle of a sumif calc:

"="&$C13

I am struggling with the "=" and the &. Can someone provide some guidance?

[daddylonglegs]

If the formula is something like

=SUMIF(A:A,"="&$C13,B:B)

then that just means that B will be summed when the corresponding entry in A is equal to C13

you could equally use

=SUMIF(A:A,$C13,B:B)

[Dave Peterson]

Like:

=sumif(a1:a10,"="&$c13,b1:b10)

I think that the originator wanted to be explicit with what he/she was doing.

This would have been sufficient:
=sumif(a1:a10,$c13,b1:b10)

But by including the "=" in that criteria, it would be easy to see how to change
it to not equal or greater than or less than:

=sumif(a1:a10,"<>"&$c13,b1:b10)
=sumif(a1:a10,">"&$c13,b1:b10)
=sumif(a1:a10,"<"&$c13,b1:b10)

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But the original formula is still just checking each cell in the first range and
comparing it to the value in the criteria ($c13) and summing that 2nd range.




jcastellano wrote:
>
> I am trying to debug a spreadhseet and have come across this formula in
> the middle of a sumif calc:
>
> "="&$C13
>
> I am struggling with the "=" and the &. Can someone provide some
> guidance?
>
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