Wild characters in function?

[Steven]

=SUMPRODUCT((A6:A20007=A20012)*(B6:B20007=B20012)*(D620007=D20012)*(F6:F20007))

This is a very nice way to do multiple sumif's to return a sum.

Is there a way to use wild characters. For example one of the columns I am
using is for departments. A certian goup starts with "42##" so in B20012 per
the function above I put 42* in the cell but it did not work. Is there a way
to do this.

Thank you,

Steven

 

[Glenn]

=SUMPRODUCT((A6:A20007=A20012)*(B6:B20007=B20012)*(D620007=D20012)*(F6:F20007))

This is a very nice way to do multiple sumif's to return a sum.

Is there a way to use wild characters. For example one of the columns I am
using is for departments. A certian goup starts with "42##" so in B20012 per
the function above I put 42* in the cell but it did not work. Is there a way
to do this.

Thank you,

Steven

LEFT(B6:B20007,2)="42"

 

[Luke M]

This will produce a true/false array:

ISNUMBER(MATCH("42??",A6:A20007,0))

Whole formula:


=SUMPRODUCT((A6:A20007=A20012)*ISNUMBER(MATCH(B20012&"*",B6:B20007,0))*(D620007=D20012)*(F6:F20007))

 

[Teethless mama]

(LEFT(B6:B20007,2)="42")