I am doing a simple sumif. My criteria is a string of 5 characters (e.g., 12345). The range where I am looking for that criteria contains entries of 10 characters (e.g., 1234567890), some of which contain the 5-character string I am looking for. How can I tell excel to sum based on cells that contain that 5-character string within the 10 characters in the cell?
>Solution :
You need to use wildcards:
=SUMIF(A1:A4,"*12345*",B1:B4)