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Excel How To Sum

This document provides an explanation and examples of using the SUMIF function in Excel to sum cells that are not equal to a specific value. The SUMIF function supports operators like "<>" to sum values when another cell is not equal to a given value. An example formula sums the amounts in column E when the region in column C is not equal to "West". Alternatively, the SUMIFS function can also be used to sum cells that are not blank by specifying the criteria as "<>" in the function.

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Excel How To Sum

This document provides an explanation and examples of using the SUMIF function in Excel to sum cells that are not equal to a specific value. The SUMIF function supports operators like "<>" to sum values when another cell is not equal to a given value. An example formula sums the amounts in column E when the region in column C is not equal to "West". Alternatively, the SUMIFS function can also be used to sum cells that are not blank by specifying the criteria as "<>" in the function.

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Sum if cells are not equal to

Generic formula
=SUMIF(range,"<>value",sum_range)

Explanation
To sum cells when other cells are not equal to a specific value, you can use the SUMIF
function.
In the example shown, cell H7 contains this formula:

=SUMIF(region,"<>West",amount)
This formula sums the amounts in column E only when the region in column C is not
"West".

How the formula works


The SUMIF function supports all of the standard Excel operators, including not-equal-to,
which is input as <>.
When you use an operator in the criteria for a function like SUMIF, you need to enclose it
in double quotes (""). In this case, the criteria is input as "<>West" which you can read as
"not equal to West", or simply "not West".

Alternative with SUMIFS


You can also use the SUMIFS function to sum if cells are NOT blank. SUMIFS can handle
multiple criteria, and the order of the arguments is different from SUMIF. The equivalent
SUMIFS formula is:

=SUMIFS(amount, region,"<>West")
Notice that the sum range always comes first in the SUMIFS function.

SUMIFS allows you to easily extend the criteria to handle more than one condition if
needed.

Author
Dave Bruns

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