Most likely a Lookup table and a VLOOKUP formula.

On Sheet2 enter your places numbers 1 through 25

In column B enter the points for each corresponding placing.

Back to Sheet 1

In Column A you would have the competitor names.

I column B you would have their placing in the race.

In C1 enter =VLOOKUP(B1,Sheet2!$A$1:$B$25,2,FALSE)

Drag/copy down to get points in column C.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:51:01 -0700, Jessica
wrote:

Thank you, im trying to create a sheet which will automatically identify
points allocated to a person depending on what position they came in a race.
There are up to 25 competitors at one time and points for all places. How
would i get around the 7 limit?

"Roger Govier" wrote:

Hi Jessica

The answer is Yes. You can nest up to 7 levels of IF statement in a
single test.
There are also methods of overcoming this limit, and other better
methods if your requirement approaches or exceeds 7.
I many circumstances, the use of AND or OR will provide your result, but
you can also combine IF with AND or with OR statements.

An example of 4 levels of nesting would be
=IF(A1<4,TRUE,IF(A19,TRUE,IF(B1<5,TRUE,IF(B114,T RUE,FALSE))))
would return True if any of the 4 conditions are met.

This could also be written (more simply) with only one level of nesting
as
=IF(OR(A1<4,A19,B1<5,B114),TRUE,FALSE)
or even more simply as
=OR(A1<4,A19,B1<5,B114)
which does not use IF at all and returns True or False as its result

Alternatively, if all 4 conditions had to be met to return True, then
again, without any IF's
=AND(A13,A1<10,B15,B1<15)

Clearly if your answer needs to be something other than True or False,
then an IF statement needs to be included
=IF(A190,"Excellent",IF(A170,"Very Good",IF(A150,"Good","Try
Harder")))

It all depends what you are trying to achieve as to which method you use

I hope this helps

--
Regards

Roger Govier


"Jessica" wrote in message
...
Is there any way of having more than one scenario in an arguement so
that the
"TRUE" answer will depend on more than one "IF"