To return a zero when criteria is not met, try:

=(A1="A")*3+(A1="B")*5

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HTH,

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"Karen" wrote in message
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I'm wanting to set a formula so that if cell A1 is "a" then C1 would be 3
and
if A1 is "b" then C1 would be 5.