How to make an excel formula which totals several agecent rows based on cell values

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Published on 2009-12-28T16:18:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 11:33 UTC
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I have an excel sheet with three columns: date, person and percentage. I would like to put in a data validation that flags cells if the total for a given data/person combination do not equal 100%. Is that possible?

In other words, in the custom formula of a data validation, I would like to make the following type of formula.

 =if(sum( cells with a (date = the date on this row, person = person on this row))=1)

Is there a function which will return the cells in a range conditioned on certain values, or will sum the cells.

Note that if it is not possible to do two cells, I have no issue adding a cell which combines both values for the purpose of effecting the lookup.

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