In Excel can I write a formula that will calculate the sum of a column based on the contents of another column?

Question

In Excel can I write a formula that will calculate the sum of a column based on the contents of another column? In the example below, the formula would output '12' if I wanted to see all sales with a category of 'Email'.

This was my idea, but it doesn't work.

=SUMIF(table1[Sales],AND(table1[Category]="Email",table1[Subcategory]="Content"))

A       | B         | C
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Sales   | Category  | Subcategory
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10      | Email     | Content
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5       | Web       | Non-Content
-----------------------------------
2       | Email     | Content

Answer 1

You want SUMIFS() with an S :

=SUMIFS(table1[Sales],table1[Category],"Email",table1[Subcategory],"Content")

Criteria are always done in twos:

• A range the same size as the one being summed
• The criteria as a string( = being the default)

You can add others or only have one:

=SUMIFS(table1[Sales],table1[Category],"Email")

Which does the same as SUMIF() with slightly different order of criteria.