Google Sheets Error "Array Arguments to SUMIFS are of different size"

Question

Converting from an Excel file (where this works fine), I have a SUMIFS formula that is returning an error "Array Arguments to SUMIFS are of different size". The formula in question looks like this:

=SUMIFS($G9:$EA9,$F$2:$DZ$2,">=1/1/"&A$2,$F$2:$DZ$2,"<=12/31/"&A$2)

The array arguments are:

• G9:EA9 - 125 columns, 1 row
• F2:DZ2 - 125 columns, 1 row
• F2:DZ2 - 125 columns, 1 row

The criteria arguments are values. I'm not looking for a workaround or hack - just want to know if I'm somehow misusing the SUMIFS formula so I can maintain consistency with Excel

Answer 1

This turns out to be a quirk of Google Sheets, which only generates as many columns as "needed". So while Excel understands what EA means even when there's no content there, by default Google Sheets thinks there are far fewer columns, and therefore the offset array ranges were indeed different sizes. 38 vs 39 in my case. When I added 125 columns to the Sheet, the formula worked fine.