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On 04/21/2016 03:43 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
John R. Sowden wrote:

  > I have an accounting ledger in calc, with two columns in question.
  >
  > col 1 is credit (amount charged to account) and  col 2 is the account
  > number (a 4 digit number currently formatted a  number with no decimal,
  > but not text).
  >
  > My objective is to sum the amounts in column 1 if col 2=1234.  Not a
  > problem.  Done.
  >
  > Now I want to sum the amounts in column 1 if the number in col 2 is 1234
  > or 2345 or 6789)
  > I tried just putting the numbers in the sumif field, I tried putting
  > them in parentheses,  and finally I tried the OR() function by making
  > the criteria field in sumif OR(1234,2345,6789).
  >
  > No dice.  Two questions:
  > 1) what is the solution to my problem?
  > 20 Where can I go for more reference material than the help screen to
  > solve these little problems?
  >
  > thanks,
  > John

You could use a regular expression for the criterium. You will have to enable regular expressions 
in formulas.

=SUMIF(B5:B10;"1234|2345|6789";A5:A10)

Look in the Calc Guide.
Thank you all. It worked. By the way Regular Expression is on by default, as I would not have touched it as I didn't know what effect it would have. Your responses open up more possibilities!

John



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