Comments on: Conditional Ranking in Excel – RankIF using SumProduct

By: Thang

Thang — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:49:11 +0000

i tried it, but have some bug
if have 2 ranks = 1, so next rank will be 3 not 2

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:24:58 +0000

Soooo useful! Exactly what I needed and I would never have come up with that myself. Thanks a lot!

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:57:53 +0000

Amazing! What a great help! Thank you so much!!!

By: Admin

Admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:10:49 +0000

Yes you are right, the series of IFS functions such as COUNTIFS and SUMIFS have been a godsend. Really clear and easily understandable. I dont think they are available in excel versions prior to 2007 though.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:11:23 +0000

I love SumProduct, but I have a data set that includes “N/A” in some cells so the SumProduct would not rank properly. Then I switched to Ben Sowter’s suggestion of using COUNTIFS and that worked perfectly! For a relatively novice Excel user, though they both perform roughly the same action, the logic of COUNTIFS is easier to understand.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:03:29 +0000

This is AWESOME! I spent ages trying to use an array in the rank function to no avail.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:25:22 +0000

The sumproduct formula is a great way to rank. However, are you able to add a tiebreak to the existing formula?

By: Excel Fan

Excel Fan — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:45:48 +0000

You might not have noticed the “IFS” functions because they are new to excel 2007.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:52:41 +0000

I recently came across the SUMIFS function for applying a multiple criteria SUMIF. I don’t know why I’d never seen it before because it has proved to be a life saver. I imagine the COUNTIFS function must be similarly useful. I’ll check it out and post a blog about the two.
Thanks

By: Ben Sowter

Ben Sowter — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:44:59 +0000

Admittedly SUMPRODUCT is a powerful formula but in this case would it not be both easier and quicker for large datasets to do it this way?

=1+COUNTIFS($B$2:$B$12,B2,$C$2:$C$12,”>”&C2)

This also makes it very straightforward to involve more complex criteria.