Errata....

On May 11, 3:03*pm, joeu2004 wrote:
Second, you might have been thinking of the Excel paradigm
IF(OR({"V","½V","i","½i"}),...) in mind. *But note that
the array constant (list of strings) is surrounded by curly
braces, not parentheses.

I meant to write the paradigm:

IF(OR(A1={"V","½V","i","½i"}),...)