2 6

a 242

Instance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
a 79 17 32 19 45 21 87 66
b 87 33 93 21 45 79 68 62
c 42 64 66 4 94 71 65 41
d 91 65 83 7 20 16 90 5
e 13 17 89 53 57 50 25 74
a 15 40 52 40 69 5 26 60
b 10 78 40 38 5 25 78 91
c 35 87 89 71 84 8 40 95
d 51 67 51 93 28 84 12 6
e 12 77 49 12 16 30 65 22
a 98 73 3 45 68 76 74 14
b 95 66 41 61 47 5 27 28
c 52 29 57 38 10 53 64 81
d 100 39 73 96 82 27 61 43
e 31 18 18 27 28 69 43 51
a 84 70 59 30 95 7 59 20
b 6 3 13 32 91 62 33 84
c 51 38 50 81 31 63 77 7
d 33 74 51 87 31 48 88 62
e 7 45 74 23 45 29 2 6
a 53 42 47 10 53 18 66 77
b 53 52 89 12 10 6 16 53
c 4 21 34 89 36 62 30 91
d 49 94 7 15 44 88 27 36
e 98 58 51 81 94 51 62 72
329 242 193 144 330 127 312 237

Array formula example:

A specialized SUMIF type calculation.

The goal was to be able to sum a range of user specified columns where the
row matches the user specified "Instance".

In this case the criteria are columns 2 thru 6 and Instance "a".

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98 64
37 75
84 90
73 8
65 92
50 11
76 94
30 2
57 39
9 96
51 23
94 63
52 33
41 99
99 98
30 28
7 88
11 24
33 39
18 70
54 57
74 35
71 8
33 69
58 95
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