Consider the follow example:
I want the SUMIF of Cell C8 to be “sum the price, if the category is equal to B8”.
To individually test equality of each cell in column A I would say, for example for cell A1: EXACT(A1,B8)
But whenever I want to apply this sort of thinking within a SUMIF I don’t know how to represent “Ax” in the conditional inside the SUMIF.
The only way I see to do this is to create yet another auxiliary column “is exact” to perform the Exact function, and then use that column within the SUMIF conditional.
Is there a simpler alternative that doesn’t require an auxiliary column?
Thanks!