You can't type letters into a cell in column D and have them appear as
numbers using a formula.

You would need to write code for that (or perhaps use autocorrect - but I
would imagine that might be complex - setting it up and clearing it using
selectionchange event).

right click on the sheet tab of the worksheet where you want this behavior

select view code.

Paste in this code:

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
Dim sStr As String, sStr1 As String
Dim i As Long, sChr As String, res As Variant
If Target.Count 1 Then Exit Sub
If Target.Column = 4 Then
If IsEmpty(Target) Then Exit Sub
sStr = Trim(Target.Value2)
If Len(sStr) 6 Then
Target.ClearContents
Exit Sub
End If
If IsNumeric(sStr) Then Exit Sub
sStr1 = ""
Set rng = Range("L2:M12")
For i = 1 To Len(sStr)
sChr = Mid(sStr, i, 1)
res = Application.VLookup(sChr, rng, 2, False)
If Not IsError(res) Then
sStr1 = sStr1 & res
Else
sStr1 = sStr1 & "-"
End If
Next
If IsNumeric(sStr1) Then
Application.EnableEvents = False
Target.Value = CDbl(sStr1) / 100
Target.NumberFormat = "$ #,##0.00"
End If
Else

End If
ErrHandler:
Application.EnableEvents = True
End Sub

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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Your post does not state what you are confused about.

It also doesn't state what problem you want to solve.

You can use data validation to restrict entries in column D

It is unclear how range L2:M12 plays in the problem.

It is unclear what you want the "program" to do.
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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"still confused" wrote in message
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I still need help with writing this program...can anyone
help?

my range is L2:M12
I am using 10 letters to represent numbers 1,2..8,9,0
those letters are to be typed in the "D" column, no more
than 6 consecutive letters (they will not represent a
value greater than $9,999.99

Please help...