Wildcards
Certain Excel functions like SUMIF and SUMIFS support thewildcardcharacters “?”
Notice you must enclose the text and the wildcard in double quotes ("").
Also note that SUMIF isnotcase-sensitive.
The criteria “sha*” will match “Shampoo”, or “SHAMPOO”.
SUMIFS solution
it’s possible for you to also use theSUMIFS functionto sum if cells begin with.
SUMIFS can handlemultiplecriteria, and the order of the arguments is different from SUMIF.
Like SUMIF, the SUMIFS function isnotcase-sensitive.
Criteria can be applied to dates, numbers, and text.