Microsoft Office & VBA

SumProduct – prioritizing lookups

As I’ve said before you can use Sumproduct() for many things that it probably wasnt designed for. Various array functions could be used to do the same thing, but trying to do it all in sumproduct is […]

Microsoft Office & VBA

Respect a Filter with Sumproduct

Quite often Sumproduct is used in cases where a Pivot table just doesn’t cut it. Here’s how to make Sumproduct respect filters in a data table.   Pick a column in your data table   Lets use […]

Microsoft Office & VBA

Sumproduct Strangeness-2

This time we are going to use SumProduct and  Search together to check for near matches in data.  Search() and Sumproduct() Combining Search() and Sumproduct() will give us the option of matching partial strings. This opens up a whole new set of […]