In a hurry to make most of the weekend, 4 of us rushed to the Chungmuro metro station, bought tickets for Yongsan[view Yongsan photos] and rushed to line number 4. The train came in a moment and we boarded it immediately. After a couple of stations Rhushi shouted, “Abe, we took the wrong direction. We should go to Seoul Metro station and change over; instead, we are going back.” After some confusion Rajesh figured out that he did misguided all of us to take the metro going in other direction. We got down at the next stop; the walls read “Dongdaemun”
Then Rhushi recalled that Dongdaemun indeed is a shopping town itself, so we changed the plans and decided to browse this area.Dongdaemun literally means “great eastern gate” in Korean.
As soon as we got out, we saw this beautiful river bisecting the road. Alongside the river are lots of Christmas lights and lights. Everywhere festival mood is at a high.
After realizing that the Dongdaemun shopping plaza is closed on Sundays we decided to walk further and see what is there. We walked through a very busy sideway selling everything from fruits, eatables, bags, leather items, t-shits, tools, cigarettes all in congested little shops flocked by loads of people. We bargained for a handbag while lots of busy shoppers kept jostling us, only to give up finding the multi-dimensional negotiation with shop-keeper and people tough.
When we reached the end of the street we were in front of a place called “Doota” (later I came to know that Doota indeed is one of the finest shopping places for clothes in Seoul). The place is really nice. First couple floors are dedicated for women’s wear. Lots of out of the world fashion items were available there. We thought we would leave the place since it seemed like they are selling only ladies wear, but somehow we convinced ourselves to explore the 3rd floor. It ended up being the men’s section. We were instantly in a world of finest men’s fashion wear. Lots of nice clothes are available there. Office, party, winter, casual, play . . . anything you want, you could get it there. We went mad looking at the amount of variety and attractive options there. I wasn’t out of the place before I bought a winter jacket and a t-shirt for myself.
When we came out it was already dark and cold. 
The entrance of the shopping mall is decorated with beautiful snow-flake like Christmas lights. There is an artificial snow machine too. Just when we wanted to leave the place, there was an announcement in Korean. Doota is organizing some audition for dancers that day, so there were lots of people there dancing on an elevated platform in front of the mall. We stayed for some time there and enjoyed the dance and music. It felt like good old days of campus late night parties.
We explored Dongdaemun further albeit our wallets weighing much lesser than what they did when we entered Doota. 
Ahead of the mall there is a small watch shop on the platform selling beautiful wrist gear. Apparently there is no bargaining culture in Korea, the shop keeper tells the price, and if you like it you pay and buy the item. But we nagged with the watch shop lady and got a couple of watches for 10000 won each. The lady almost got mad when we kept on purchasing watches and bargained for every piece.
Since it was getting cold, we decided to take the subway back home. But on the way we stopped by at a beautiful tie shop and we bought a few ties each.
The set back was 100000 won, but the upside is lots of fun and pleasant evening. Don’t miss Dongdaemun shopping experience if you ever come to Seoul.
[Reaching Dongdaemun station from Seoul: Take subway line 4 and getdown at Dongdaemun, 5th stop. Seoul subway map here]
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I’d suggest simply using the subtotal function and filtering the data using the Win/Loss column. You get the same results and the formula is more comprehensible.
@John
That is one option.
There are times however when you want to see the whole data table or a filtered subset and still want to produce summary reports against an unfiltered field.
Is there a particular reason why you are using a comma and the unary (–) operator for the second array in the SUMPRODUCT formula? It seems to work the same if you were to string the arrays together using the asterisk (*). The advantage is that SUMPRODUCT treats the entire string of arrays as a single array.
@Mathew
Your correct, There is no difference.
I thought it may have been easier to explain this method.
Is there a way to do this on a large set of data? As in ~100,000 rows? When I try I get an error because the formula becomes too long. It says the max length of a formula is 8,192 characters. Excel 2010.
How do I incorporate a specific text within a cell for the second array. For instance, – -(C7:C13=”Apple”)
when I chose a specific text the formula does not work.
@RB
I am not sure what is the issue as if I use the sample data in the post the following work fine
Count:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(C7:C13,ROW(C7:C13)-MIN(ROW(C7:C13)),,1)), –(C7:C13=”L”))
Sum:
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET(C7:C13,ROW(C7:C13)-MIN(ROW(C7:C13)),,1)),(C7:C13=”L”)*(D7:D13))
You may want to check that there are no leading or trailing spaces in your list of Apples
I should have given a better explanation. Heres my situation. I have a column with cells filled with names like Column 1, Column 2, Pier 1, Pier 2, etc. If the cell just contained Pier and searched for that it works. But because it has other characters in the cell its not recognizing the pier. So how can I extract specific characters of a string of text in this formula?
Hopefully this was a better explanation
Hello-
This formula works pretty well for me except that it slow down excel and prevents some of my macros from working. I was wondering if there was a way to program this in VBA so that excel isn’t always trying to recalculate it. I would like to use a push of a button to get it to run then paste in a cell.
Thanks!
I am trying to sum filtered data in a column, but would want to ignore the negative values in the column. How to go about doing this?
@Akshay
Why not just add a filter to that column to only show the values greater than zero?
The negative values are required for reporting purposes, but their effect on the total is distorting the required output. Please advise.
@Akshay
I’d suggest making a post in the Chandoo.org Forums
http://forum.chandoo.org/
Attach a sample file to simplify the task
I have this working for counting and summing, however, I have a list and for the second array, I need a criteria. That is, I’m looking for b13:b200=”01.??.??” or =left((a1,2) or something like that. These types of criteria matches do not appear to work as I get a blank as a result.
Thanks!
@Bob
As your formula b13:b200=”01.??.??” looks like you are trying to check the first day of the month of the range
What about trying Day(B13:B200)=1
Hai Experts,
i understood this formula well and working fine in MS Excel 2013
but when the same am trying to place in google Spreadsheet it shows error as
“SUMPRODUCT has mismatched range sizes. Expected row count: 1. column count: 1. Actual row count: 2014, column count: 1.” and as a result #VALUE! Appears in cell.
Can anyone please help me how would i get it done in Google Spread sheet
or is there any other formula as a substitute for this.
Thank you very much.
thanks for providing this.. but why does excel keeps on prompting Circular referencing in cell D3?
@Vivek
I don’t know
I just downloaded the file and it is working fine and not showing that error
Goto the Formulas, Calculation Options Tab and check that Calculation is set to Automatic
What version of Excel and Windows are you using ?
I know that this forum is for MS Excel, but I am trying to help someone who is working in Google Sheets. The below formula works in Excel but Google Sheets returns:
“SUMPRODUCT has mismatched range sizes. Expected row count: 1. column count: 1. Actual row count: 39000, column count: 1.” and as a result #VALUE! Appears in cell.
This is the same problem asked by Srichirin above. Does anyone know if there is a formula for Google Sheets that will replicate what MS Excel does?
=SUMPRODUCT(SUBTOTAL(3,OFFSET($C$6:$C$39500,ROW($C$6:$C$39500)-MIN(ROW($C$6:$C$39500)),,1)),- -($C$6:$C$39500=H1),($D$6:$D$39500))
Trying to find a SUMPRODUCT formula that counts the word Closed by date for the last 7 days in a filtered list.
=COUNTIF(M:M,”>”&TODAY()-7) works ok for unfiltered count Column M contains Closure dates (blank if open) and Column L is Status Open or Closed
@ Terry
Please ask the question at the Chandoo.org Forums
https://chandoo.org/forum/
Please attach a sample file to ensure a quicker more accurate answer
I used this formula and worked like a charm! But, now I’ve been requested to use it but adding not one but two criteria in the same formula. For instance the sum I was doing added negative and positive numbers. I’ve been asked to use the exact same formula but adding that only positive numbers were considered… any idea on how to do this?
How exactly do you do sum filtered cells when two criteria are need not just one?
Thank you so much brother literally I have been struggling since morning to get the sum of the filtered category, however, after reading your blog attentively i got my solution, so thanks a lot once again.