Excel SUMIFS Function

Introduction
• SUMIFS Function is new induction in the
Microsoft Excel’s Function family
• This is a wonderful function which can sum a
range of cells depending on the criteria
specified by the user. It is similar to the
SUMIF function but with one exception that
SUMIF can only check one criteria but SUMIFS
can do multiple criteria checking
 Criteria Operator
• We can use the Operator Description
> Greater Than
operators in the criteria
< Less Than
field, these operators = Equals to
are called the relational <> Not Equals to
operators and they are >= Greater Than &
Equal to
<= Less Than & Equal
to
 Syntax of SUMIFS
This is the range which will contain the
numbers which you want the sum for
=SUMIFS(sum_range, criteria_range1, criteria1[,
criteria_range2, criteria2], ….)
This is the range which will contain the
range of cell in which you want to check
the criteria 2, this is similar to
criteria_range1 with one exception that
it will look for criteria2
This is the range which contains the
range of cells in which you want to
check the criteria1
This is the criteria which you want
to search into the criteria_range1,
this parameter may be enclosed
in “ inverted commas or may be a
cell reference
This is the criteria 2 which you
want to search into the
criteria_range2 this parameter
may be enclosed in “ inverted
commas or may be a cell
reference
 SUMIFS examples
• =SUMIFS(A1:A10, B1:B10, “>1000”, C1:C10,
“East”)
• The above example says; that sum the cells in
range A1:A10 where its corresponding B1:B10
cells is greater than 1000 and at the same
time if the corresponding C1:C10 is “East”
 SUMIFS examples
This is the range which will contain the
numbers which you want the sum for

This is the range which contains the

range of cells in which you want to
check the criteria1

This is the criteria which you want to

search into the criteria_range1, this
parameter may be enclosed in “ inverted
commas or may be a cell reference

This is the range which will contain the

range of cell in which you want to check This is the criteria 2 which you want to
the criteria 2, this is similar to search into the criteria_range2 this
criteria_range1 with one exception that parameter may be enclosed in “ inverted
it will look for criteria2 commas or may be a cell reference
 SUMIFS examples
• You can also replace the criteria with some
cell range in the next example we will see the
same
 SUMIFS examples

You can see that this criteria_1 refers to

a cell reference G5 which contains the
criteria. Advantage of using cell
reference is that you can directly change This field is also used as reference
the criteria in the cell. criteria_2
 Multiple Criteria
• As we have used 2 examples in the last
sample, you can also use couple of times
 Conclusion
• SUMIFS is a new induction in the function family of
Microsoft Excel in its version Excel 2007, very similar
like SUMIF with only one distinction that SUMIFS can
check multiple examples
• You can use operators in the criteria which are called
relational operators
• You can use criteria in one of two ways either you can
enter constants or you can also use cell reference
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