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    Cell referencing formula question

    Hi everyone

    I have a quick question. I made a spreadsheet which looks as follows:

    point values 1 2 3 4 5

    study 1 10 6 2 1 5
    study 2 7 4 3 9 2
    study 3 8 3 1 4 7 etc....

    Numbers 1-10 represent participants in a study. I wanted to know if there was a way for Excel to add up all of the point values corresponding to a specific participant, for example "3" (3+2=5). My spreadsheet is very long as I would rather not individually add up each point value.

    Thanks!
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    Re: formula question

    Can you post a small sample of how your spreadsheet looks like?

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    Re: formula question

    11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 point values

    5 8 2 1 6 10 4 7 11 3 9 question 1
    5 8 2 1 10 6 7 11 3 4 9 question 2
    8 5 2 10 6 7 3 11 4 9 1 question 3
    5 11 10 6 2 4 8 1 7 3 9
    5 8 2 1 6 10 4 7 11 3 9
    5 7 1 4 2 9 6 11 10 3 8
    1 5 7 2 3 4 6 8 9 10 11
    8 1 2 10 4 6 3 7 5 11 9
    8 5 2 7 4 6 10 11 3 1 9
    8 4 7 2 5 6 10 11 1 3 9
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    Re: formula question

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    Re: formula question

    I'm sorry, I meant attach a small example of your actual spreadsheet.

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    Re: Cell referencing formula question

    Attached is a small sample
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    Re: formula question

    Thank for the title change
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    Re: formula question

    Not sure what - or where you want this, but maybe this will get you headed in the right direction...

    =SUMIF($B$2:$L$12,1)

    This will add up all the values in your table that = 1

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    Re: formula question

    I will remember that for next time lol

    It ended up giving me 11 with the =SUMIF($B$2:$L$12,1) formula. I should be getting 67 (Sum of 11,10,9,8,8,8,4,3,3,2,1). Still a little stuck :/

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    Re: Cell referencing formula question

    OK your file is a little different from your explanation, the reason you got 11 (so did I) if because there were 11 instances of 1. If you want the sum of all the values in row 2, then try this in M2, copied down...
    =SUM(B2:L2)

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    Re: Cell referencing formula question

    I'm a little confused with what you are looking for. You say you should be getting 67 by summing up 11,10,9,8,8,8,4,3,3,2,1, but where are you getting those numbers from?

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    Re: Cell referencing formula question

    So Participants 1 through 11 answered 11 different questions and for each question there is an 11 point rubric (top row). I wish to add all of the point values associated for each single participant. For example, Participant "1" appeared 1 time
    under 11 points, once under 10, once under 9, three time under 8, once under 4, twice under 3, once under 2 and once under 1. I need to multiply the number of times the participant appears under a certain point value at the top by that top value and do this across the board {Sum of(1*B1)+(1*C1)+(1*D1)+(3*E1)+(1*I1)+(2*J1)+(1*K1)+(1*L1)}

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