By: Abrar-ur-Rahman Niloy

In reply to Khurram Javed.

Hello, Khurram Javed!

As of the latest version of Excel, the SUMIFS function doesn’t support partial matches with numbers directly. If your codes contain alphanumeric characters then the formula works perfectly. Because Excel doesn’t recognize them as “number” format.

If the range B5:B14 contains numeric values only (i.e. 102054), the function will return a #VALUE! error saying wrong data type.
However, if you are only concerned with the result and not with the formula, there is a workaround for that.