Well now you're talking about a different arrangement of the formula
compared with what you described earlier, but the question still remains as
to what is going in to the formula.
Set up a helper cell with the formula =Cover!G3, format it as a number;
what is the value?
Set up a helper cell with the formula =$H$12, format it as a number; what is
the value?
What value are you getting out of your =IF(Cover!G3<=$H$12,$H$12,Cover!G3)
formula?
You are sure that the calculation mode [in Tools/ Options/ Calculation] is
set to Automatic?

David Biddulph

"Andrea" wrote in message
...
this is what my formula reads: IF(Cover!G3<=$H$12,$H$12,Cover!G3)
What I want is that if the CoverG3 is less or equal to the value in H12,
which is a value that is being pulled by a formula from another workbookm
then it returns the value in h12. If CoverG3 is greater than H12, than it
should return CoverG3. Is this correct? Even if I use a helper cell
(H13=h12, and then substiture H13 in the above formula and it is formatted
as
a number), it still does not work.

Maybe I am missing something?


"David Biddulph" wrote:

Are you sure that A4 is returning the number 10, not a text value? If in
doubt, try a helper cell with the formula =A4, formatted as a number.
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David Biddulph

"Andrea" wrote in message
...
It is not working. The A4A5 is giving me a false statement, when it
should
be true. For example, even if the formula in A4 results in the number
10,
and A5=8, it is telling me that the logic statement is false, and
returning a
value of 8. That is why I was questioning the ability of excel to
distinguish between the fomula within a cell and the value of the
formula
in
a logic statement. The formula works on any two cells that have
numeric
values, just not when a cell that is included is referencing another
cell.

Any other thoughts?

"Dave F" wrote:

Yes, your formula will work.

"Andrea" wrote:

What if it A4=C5 (C5 is in another workbook in my example), and i
wanted the
IF statement to read as follows =IFA4A5, A4, A5.

Will it still work the same, the if A4 was greater than A5, the
value
returned is A4, referencing the value in C5?

I think my formula is correct, because it returns the correct values
if
I
pick two other cells to compare, just not the cells that are pulling
data
from the additional workbook.

"Dave F" wrote:

All formulas read values. Some values are hard-coded and some are
the result
of other formulas' calculations.

So what are you trying to do here? If A4=C5 and you want to test
if
A5 is
less than A4, you could just enter in, say B2:
=IFA4A5,"bigger","smaller"
Excel will look at A4, see its reference to C5 and calculate based
on
the
value in C5. And if C5 contains a formula, it will iterate the
process until
it finds a final value.

"Andrea" wrote:

Is it possible to build a formula that reads the value in a cell
(that
references another cell) versus reading the formula in a cell?

For example, if a greater than value: IF A4A5, but the value in
A4
is a
reference from another table, is there a way to do this, so the
formula reads
the value, not the formula within the cell?

Thanks!
--
Andrea