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An ops analyst's "high-value orders" rollup keeps returning 0 for every threshold. They wrote:
=SUMIFS($B$2:$B$16, $B$2:$B$16, "1000")
The intent was "sum of orders greater than $1000". But the criteria string "1000" has no comparison operator, so SUMIFS interprets it as "orders that equal exactly 1000" — and since no order in the table is exactly 1000, the result is 0.
The fix: put the operator inside the quoted string. Excel parses ">1000" as "greater than 1000". Common variants:
">1000"">"&E2 (where E2 = 1000)E2 (where E2 contains the literal string ">1000")In this problem, column E already holds the operator-prefixed criteria strings (>500, >1000, >2000), so passing E2 / E3 / E4 straight into SUMIF works.
Your task:
Graded cells: F2 (>500), F3 (>1000), F4 (>2000).