Summing values in named ranges based on dates, multiple sheets!

[giggsteve8]

Hi guys, first post! I'll try to make it simple:

I have 3 sheets; Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3.

Each sheet contains what is basically a bank account register. The named fields, on each sheet, are:

Sheet1Dates (dates), Sheet1Cat (category), Sheet1In (money in), Sheet1Out (money out).

On my 4th sheet, I would like to make a budget. For money spent, it should sum all the money spent in a certain category, for a certain month, for all accounts.

I am able to do this currently, but it's messy. On my budget sheet, I can sum Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3 separately, by month and category, like this:

=SUMIFS(Sheet1Out,Sheet1Cat,$E17,Sheet1date,">=3/1/13",Sheet1Date,"<=3/31/13")

In the above formula, $E17 is the name of the category. This works fine, but I have to sum each account, then take a total to get the final sum for that category across all accounts for that month.


Is there a way to just use one column to sum all the sheets? Here is what I tried, but it returned #VALUE:

=SUMIFS((Sheet1Out,Sheet2Out,Sheet3Out),(Sheet1Cat,Sheet2Cat,Sheet3Cat),$E17,(Sheet1Date,Sheet2Date,Sheet3Date),">=3/1/13",(Sheet1Date,Sheet2Date,Sheet3Date),"<=3/31/13")


Any thoughts?

[FDibbins]

hi and welcome to the forum

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