{"id":1048,"date":"2019-05-03T14:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2019-05-03T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:49:41","slug":"the-sumproduct-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-sumproduct-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The SUMPRODUCT Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiplies corresponding components in specific arrays, and returns the sum of those multiplications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The syntax of the function is the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <strong>SUMPRODUCT<\/strong><em>(<strong>array1, [array2], &#8230;<\/strong><\/em>) <\/p><cite><strong>array1, [array2], &#8230;<\/strong>: The arrays whose components we want to multiply and then sum. Only the first argument is required and the other are optional (up to 255). <br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrays must have the same dimensions, or an #VALUE! error will be thrown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any array components that are not numeric are considered zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click on the button to practice using this function, with the help of our <strong>Online Assessment Tool<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"button-practice-container\" ><a class=\"button button-primary button-practice\" style=\"height:auto\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-content\/plugins\/unlimited-integration\/run.php?id=dTlia0VsOUlGcFhSRUY0V1RJVHRuUS9yWXhJYW4rVS9FaTZQWi9oVUdqdz0=&b=UFFaVysvZGFwL0ZLRjJUSDlyYm9qWDU2ejg3bjZTb0YvRCtrQ1FtLzdpS1ZqaTYrZDQyeWc2b1RlUEVGbGkxYlF6TUlaZi8wZysvdkxob0M2OURYNFN3MENMeVRQUG5KcWIzNVRmM1lpeWc9\">Practice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here is an example of how to use the SUMPRODUCT function:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use the proper function in the cell G18 to calculate the sum of the products of the respective columns of the three tables. Do not use the SUM function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Use the SUMPRODUCT function to calculate the sum of the products of cell ranges (Excel 2016)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bzPBJsXZN70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It returns a number rounded down, to the nearest integer . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,158],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-functions","tag-math","tag-sumproduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}