Automated currency symbols

[usiku]

Hi All,

I wondered if anyone has any ideas for me. I've created a spreadshee
for one of our sales guys to prove how quickly our product will pay fo
itself. I've included a box where the user enters the curren
conversion rate of £pounds to $dollars, €uros, ¥en etc. whic
automatically updates the prices for all the products.

However, I'm looking for a way to it to display the correct currenc
symbol as well as the correct prices. I've experimented with creatin
a drop-down list with the relevant countries and it populates th
previous cells before the figures with the correct currency symbo
(using IF) but this isn't really cutting the mustard as I need t
display alternative symbols for about fifteen different currencies.

Would anyone know the best way to go about this? I'd greatl
appreciate any hints or suggestions anyone might have to offer!

Thanks,
Angel

 

[Dav]

Well if you used a vlookup instead of an if statement you could get to
as many countries as you wanted, All you need is a list of countries
with their currency symbol in the next column


then something of the form
Vlookup(country, Country list, 2,false)

eg
Vlookup(a1, a10:b:100,2,false)

You could also look and concatinating the cells for the results, but
this then depends if you need to do calculations on the result

Regards

Dav

 

[usiku]

Dav,

That's wonderful - thanks for your help on this, am playing around with
this now.

Cheers,
Angela

 

[JimMay]

The Choose(Index,Val1,Val2,Val3...,Val29) is also a great tool, but
Limited to 29 values;
It's very simple. Check it out
HTH