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DSUM with Criteria in 2 different non-contigous cell ranges

I want to use a DSUM where my creiteria are in 2 different cell ranges, is it possible?
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I think that might be difficult.....

Can you describe a little more - what data you have and how the criteria will be split....does it need to be DSUM?

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fitaliano,

Can you explain what you are trying to do?  ANything you can do with DSUM, you can do with other approaches...

Patrick
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Sure I have data in the following format:

Ref_Period      Region      Board Group      Office      SURVE_GRP      Count
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      Frankfurt      EMEA ABS      54
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      Frankfurt      EMEA RMBS      28
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA ABCP      23
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA ABS      99
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA CMBS      169
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA OPCO      2
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA RMBS      677
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      Madrid      EMEA ABS      36
11-03      EMEA      CMS Europe      Madrid      EMEA RMBS      229
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11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      Frankfurt      EMEA ABS      54
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      Frankfurt      EMEA RMBS      28
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA ABCP      23
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA ABS      99
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA CMBS      169
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA OPCO      2
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      London      EMEA RMBS      677
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      Madrid      EMEA ABS      36
11-04      EMEA      CMS Europe      Madrid      EMEA RMBS      229



The list continues with other Regions/Offices and other Ref_Periods

My Goal is to  build a trend of Counts for each Ref_Period for each Region/Board Group/Office/SURVE_GRP

So my data has to look like

Region      Board Group      Office      SURVE_GRP      11-03  11-04 etc.
EMEA      CMS Europe      Frankfurt      EMEA ABS      54        54
EMEA      CMS Europe      Frankfurt      EMEA RMBS      28        28
etc.

For this I could use a DSUM or DGET but I need to build a lot of criteria... one for each

Office/ SURVE_GRP/Ref_Period Combination

So once I build all the combinations Office/SURVE_GRP I have to repeat them times the Ref_Periods

It would be great If I could reference 2 non contigous ranges I could just build one range for Office/SURVE_GRP combination and one range for Ref_Periods.

If you have other ways to do it I'll be glad to know but please don't suggest pivot tables as they take too much memory, I have huge files to deal with

I hope it is more clear now, thank you for your help


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Thanks I implemented these tricks already but when my boss tried to use my worksheet it was a nightmare... The file becomes too big, given the amount of data.  He asked me to stay away from pivots.

Any other solution?