SUMIF Need to add £ to cells for certain category against the date

Question

Hello,
I need some help.
In Table 1 I have coloums for the Date, Amount & a Category.
In Table 2 I would like to break down the Amount spent in a certain category in a certain month.
SOOO if for example:
£100 spent 1/may/13 on advertising
£200 spent 9/may/13 on advertising
£400 spent 4/oct/13 on fuel
Then in Table 2:
Under may row, under advertising coloum would say £300
under oct row, under fuel coloum would say £400
etc etc
What is the formula i need for this????

Answer 1

Here's the part of your image above that shows where the (non) action is taking place:
I'm assuming that "April Earning" is the name of the table on the left and that the word Expenditure is in row 1 of that table.
The syntax for SUMIFS, taken from the Function Browser, is shown below, and compared with your formula immediately below it. April Earnings is shortened to AE so that the formula elements line up reasonably well with the syntax diagram.
=SUMIFS(sum-values,test-values,condition,test-values,condition)
=SUMIFS(AE::D3:D19,AE::C3:C19,"="&A3,AE::B3:B19,"="&B1)
sum-values: Error: Column D contains category names. These are text, and text is given a numerical value of 0, so if this were the only error, the sum is correct. The range should refer to the column containing the values to be summed—column C.
First test-values,condition set: Error: Test 1 compares the contents of A3 (on the table on the right) to the contents of cells in column C in the table on the left. A3 contains "Advertising"; column C contains three numbers, formatted as currency. The word "Advertising" does not appear in column C; the test will return FALSE for all examples. Sum: 0. The range should refer to th column containing the bill categories—column D
Second test-values,condition set: Correct. Test 2 compares values in column B of AE (month number) with the month number in B1 of the right hand table, and returns TRUE where the values match (row 3 of AE) and FALSE where they do not (all other rows of AE.
Fixed and Relative cell references: When corrected, you will want to fill this formula down column B of the smaller table and across to the columns for the other months. When you do, the formula will return either incorrect results or error messages unless you fix some cell references.
ranges: No matter where the formula resides, you want it to refer to the same range of rows in the same columns. Insert a fixed reference operator ( $ ) before each column and row label in each range in the formula. The range in test 2 should look like this:
AE::$B$3:$B$19
cell references:
When you fill down, you want the A3 reference to move down to match the row in which the formula resides.
When you fill right, you want the A3 reference to remain fixed on column A. Insert a fixed reference operator before the letter, but not before the number: $A3
When you fill down, you want the B1 reference to remain fixed on row 1.
When you fill right, you want the B1 reference to column A.right down to match the column in which the formula resides.
Insert a fixed reference operator before the number, but not before the letter: B$1
Regards,
Barry