Require Minimum Amount When Entering Data

[Guest]

I have an estimating sheet that I made in Excel. I allow my estimators to
enter a percentage to markup materials, and Excel computes a selling price
based on cost.

I want the the data entry cell to require a minimum 10%. If they try to
enter a number less than 10%, I need Excel to warn them, or show some sort of
error.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Steve

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Select the data entry cell, do data>validation, allow > decimal, then from
dropdown select greater than or equal to, then type in 0.1 in the minimum
box. Click the error alert tab and type in the message you want them to
get if the enter anything less than 10%.
Click OK, then format the cell as percentage. Note that it can be overcome
by copy and pasting in a lesser value, I doubt they would do that in this
case though

 

[Guest]

Thanks a lot Peo.

That's exactly what I needed.

Select the data entry cell, do data>validation, allow > decimal, then from
dropdown select greater than or equal to, then type in 0.1 in the minimum
box. Click the error alert tab and type in the message you want them to
get if the enter anything less than 10%.
Click OK, then format the cell as percentage. Note that it can be overcome
by copy and pasting in a lesser value, I doubt they would do that in this
case though