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Default HOW TO ASSIGN NUMERICAL VALUES TO LETTERS IN EXCEL

Very good! I thought it was VLOOKUP already!

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Niek Otten
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"vezerid" wrote in message ups.com...
| Paul,
| modify your formula by using VLOOKUP instead of LOOKUP and add a 0 as
| fourth argument.
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=VLOOKUP(C5,{"U","G-","G","G+","F-","F","F+","E-","E","E+","D-","D","D+","C-","C","C+","B-","B","B+","A-","A","A+","A*"},{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 ,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23},FALSE)
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| HTH
| Kostis Vezerides
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|
| which I thought would work I get a #N/A message. Can someone tell me where
| teacherpaul wrote:
| I am trying to assign numerical values to grade scores - b+, c- etc, however
| when i use lookup like this
|
=LOOKUP(C5,{"U","G-","G","G+","F-","F","F+","E-","E","E+","D-","D","D+","C-","C","C+","B-","B","B+","A-","A","A+","A*"},{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 ,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23})
| which I thought would work I get a #N/A message. Can someone tell me where
| I'm going wrong? I'm using Excel 2003.
|