Excel consolidate sum yields different column total

Question

I have two columns that look like this:

Make/Model      Parc
Abarth*500      15
Abarth*500      19
Abarth*500      2
Abarth*500      14
Abarth*500      15
Abarth         


        

Answer 1

The asteriks is a special character in Excel. Easiest solution that I know is to replace the asterisk by a space. To do so in the find/replace box, type '~*' in the find box and ' ' in the replace then do replace all (without quotes).

Both sum and sumif then yield 10,475,387.