Sumproduct and horizontal lookup

I have the following spreadsheet:
A B C D
1 Jan Feb
2 blue 50 30
3 red 125 544
4 yellow 40 44
5 blue 30 122
6 red 54 60
7 red 100 80

How do I use sumproduct with a lookup in the colums. For ex. I want to know
how much I have in the blue for Jan and Feb. I don't won't to use pivot
tables.

Thanks Gingit.

I guess you have a bigger range in reality but for your example perhaps to give you a sum for blue items in jan column

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A7="Blue"),INDEX(B2:C7,0,MATCH("jan",B1:C1,0)))

Hi daddylonglegs,

This is only a sample, my spreadsheet is much more complex. But your
formula didn't work I should clarify that my spreadsheet starts at col A
if that matters.

Thanks,

"daddylonglegs" wrote:

>
> I guess you have a bigger range in reality but for your example perhaps
> to give you a sum for blue items in jan column
>
> =SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A7="Blue"),INDEX(B2:C7,0,MATCH("jan",B1:C1,0)))
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Looks like it worked afterall

THANKS :-)

"Gingit" wrote:

> Hi daddylonglegs,
>
> This is only a sample, my spreadsheet is much more complex. But your
> formula didn't work I should clarify that my spreadsheet starts at col A
> if that matters.
>
> Thanks,
>
> "daddylonglegs" wrote:
>
> >
> > I guess you have a bigger range in reality but for your example perhaps
> > to give you a sum for blue items in jan column
> >
> > =SUMPRODUCT(--(A2:A7="Blue"),INDEX(B2:C7,0,MATCH("jan",B1:C1,0)))
> >
> >
> > --
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