Excel: Subtotal Function
In Excel, the Subtotal function returns the subtotal of the numbers in a column in a list or database.
The syntax for the Subtotal function is:
Subtotal( method, range1, range2, ... range_n )
method is type of subtotal that you'd like to create. It can be one of the following values:
Value Explanation 1 AVERAGE 2 COUNT 3 COUNTA 4 MAX 5 MIN 6 PRODUCT 7 STDEV 8 STDEVP 9 SUM 10 VAR 11 VARP
range1, range2, ... range_n are the ranges of cells that you want to subtotal.
Applies To:
- Excel 2007, Excel 2003, Excel XP, Excel 2000
For example:
Let's take a look at an example:

Based on the Excel spreadsheet above:
=Subtotal(1, D2:D5) would return 22.3925 =Subtotal(2, D2:D5) would return 4 =Subtotal(3, D2:D5) would return 4 =Subtotal(4, D2:D5) would return 35.88 =Subtotal(5, D2:D5) would return 7 =Subtotal(6, D2:D5) would return 136191.51 =Subtotal(7, D2:D5) would return 11.91825316 =Subtotal(8, D2:D5) would return 10.32151 =Subtotal(9, D2:D5) would return 89.57 =Subtotal(10, D2:D5) would return 142.0447583 =Subtotal(11, D2:D5) would return 106.5335688
