Excel: VLOOKUP & SUMIF

Question

I have a table, like so:

    TYPE       DEPARTMENT       HOURS
    DEV        DESIGN           3
               PROTO            7
               TRIM             2
    APPL       DESIGN           1
               TRIM             3
    R&D        DESIGN           10

What I want to do, is create a table for each department which works out the total amount of hours they spent on each 'TYPE'. For Instance:

DESIGN DEPARTMENT
    TYPE      HOURS
    DEV       3 
    APPL      1
    R&D       10

I was thinking of doing a VLOOKUP and combine it with a SUMIF but if I am not mistaken, VLOOKUP won't look through everything will it? It stops when it finds the first one.

I am open to trying this in VBA but it would be easier to use a formula. Do you guys have any suggestions? I don't need walking through it, just pointing in the right direction.

Thanks.

Answer 1

A simple SUMPRODUCT formula will solve what you want.

=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A7=F3)*(B2:B7=F1)*(C2:C7))

See this screenshot. Please amend the above formula for your scenario.

Answer 2

Fill the gaps in your Type column see then use a PivotTable with DEPARTMENT for Report Filter, TYPE for Row Labels and Sum of HOURS for Σ Values.