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Asked: 2026-05-23T01:01:43+00:00

I am trying to create spreadsheet to use in a small retail shop. I

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I am trying to create spreadsheet to use in a small retail shop.

I have a workbook which contains expenses figures on a sheet and income figure on another sheet.

We can say that the common ground between the both sheets are the month.

I would like to write a function, which will only select those expenses of a specified month.

Something like – 

=SUM(IF( Table4[Month]="January", Table4[Amount])) 

// I want the sum of all expenses of a given table for only 
// those months which are january etc.

I tried using the above, but it failed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This should work, but there is a little trick. After you enter the formula, you need to hold down Ctrl+Shift while you press Enter. When you do, you’ll see that the formula bar has curly-braces around your formula. This is called an array formula.

    For example, if the Months are in cells A2:A100 and the amounts are in cells B2:B100, your formula would look like {=SUM(If(A2:A100="January",B2:B100))}. You don’t actually type the curly-braces though.

    You could also do something like =SUM((A2:A100="January")*B2:B100). You’d still need to use the trick to get it to work correctly.

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