Help with CountIf (assuming it is countif)

Will you please attach a sample Excel workbook? Please don't attach a picture of one.

1. Make sure that your sample data are REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.

2. Make sure that your desired solution is also shown (mock up the results manually).

3. Make sure that all confidential information is removed first!!

4. Try to avoid using merged cells. They cause lots of problems!

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Use this & copy down:

=IF(C4="","",SUMIF(D4:N4,"<>P",C4:K4))

You need to "match" the number with the presence or absence of a P. Therefore the range of the "P" criterion has to be offset by a column. In effect, if there's no P in the first cell in the range that it looks at (D4) it will add into the total the number in the first cell of the range that it looks at for the amounts (C4) and so on...