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[Guest]

I have an Time and Material Calculator that I have made. I would
like to be able to asign a number to a letter. Example if I enter "C" into a
column I would like it to represent .001. If I enter "M" into the same
column I would like it to represent .0001, and if I enter "E" it would
represent 1. When I get pricing for my materials they come per 100, 1000
or each. I would like to just enter the pricing, unit of measure and have it
calculate the per item pricing. Example, widgit A cost 80 per 100, I would
like to enter 80 and a C and have it calculate that it cost .80 per widgit.
Right now it looks like this


Quan Item Price Unit Each Cost
2 Widgit 80 C .80 1.60

At this time when I get the updated pricing I have to go
through and change the "price" and "each" column every time I get updated
pricing. I would like to be able to just change the "price " column. I
hope I exlplained this right. Thanks for any help!

 

[Roger Govier]

Hi Chris

In E2 enter
=IF(D2="",0,IF(D2="C",B2*.001,IF(D2="M",B2*.0001,IF(D2="E",B2,0))))

I have used 0 if D2 is empty or it is any letter other than C, M or E
because you are multiplying E2 by A2 in cell F2
If we used Null "" you would get a #VALUE error in F2

 

[Guest]

Chris

In E4 enter

=IF(D4="C",C4*0.01,IF(D4="M",C4*0.001,IF(D4="E",C4*1,0)))

I think that your decimals were wrong - this give the same result as you
showed

Regards
Peter

 

[Guest]

Thanks! That did it, I had to change the "B's" to "C's" so it looks
like this
=IF(D3="",0,IF(D3="C",C3*0.001,IF(D3="M",C3*0.0001,IF(D3="E",C3,0))))
my B column is the item discription. This is working out better than
expected, companies charge thousands of dollars for a program like this and I
will be able to build this in a weekend and be done with it. I was trying to
use the "if" function and it was not working correctly. Once again, thank
you!

 

[Guest]

Peter,

You are right I did have the decimals wrong, that
could have cost a few bucks to figure out later. Thanks!

 

[Roger Govier]

Hi Chris, thanks for the feedback. Apologies that I used B instead of
C, I could see quite clearly that B contained description. Put it down
to brain fade!!!

 

[Guest]

Chris

Your welcome - thanks for the feedback

Regards
Peter