Comments on: Conditional Ranking in Excel – RankIF using SumProduct

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.

By: Blink

Blink — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:08:01 +0000

This is a great formula. However, I need to conditionally rank AND uniquely rank each row. Does anyone have any ideas on that?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:25:26 +0000

This was a total lifesaver! Thanks so much for posting!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:12:08 +0000

I just repeated my own ranking technique and got loads of #VALUE errors which screwed me up for a while.

If you are getting a #VALUE error with SUMPRODUCT it implies that your data in column C (the values to be summed) are not all numeric values.
They may be text values that look like numbers or “” if you have a conditional formula in that column. In my case there turned out to be a spurious #VALUE error in column C.
Problem solved.