Totaling employee hours using multiple columns

[erenkey]

I have a database that stores employee hours by date and job number. Every employee that that works on a particular job for that date is entered into a single row. I am trying to find the best way to summarize each employee's hours but also keep the date and job number resolution. An employee name may be in any one of 9 different columns with the hours worked being the next column over. I currently summarize everything using multiple sumifs formulas but it takes a long time to calculate. Is there a better way to summarize?

 

[duggie33]

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Please provide some sample data.

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Is it possible to change the format of your data? If column A is Date, B is Job#, C is Name, and D is hours, it would be relatively easy to get the information you want if you use Office 365. You would have multiple rows for each Job.

Thanks,

Doug