Hi JLatham,

Thank you for the suggestion, I will try it out and see how well it works.
By the way, do you have any suggestions on reading material that can help me
understand how to make formulas for Excel, so I don't have to keep bothering
everyone in the Newsgroup? Thank you


"JLatham" wrote:

Roger may come back and figure a better way - but I think this version of it
will work to do what you want: with 1.1 you get like "1F", but with 1.0 you
just get "F"

=IF(AX8=1,IF(OR(AF8="A",AF8="V"),
IF(AZ8="?",IF(BA8="-","F","B"),IF(BA8="?","I","X")),""),IF(AX8=1.1,IF( OR(AF8="A",AF8="V"),"1" & IF(AZ8="?",IF(BA8="-","F","B"),IF(BA8="?","I","X")),""),""))


"Hell-fire" wrote:

Hi,

I need to edit a formula and don't really know how to do it. This was made
by another person which is no longer here. I'll try my best to explain what
it does.

This forumla interacts with 9 other cells, the default setting in column C is:
XxxxxX###_xxxx_XXXxxxxx where column C = Column D # is an ID number.
For example F0705V363_GML_MagAPACS

Column D =CONCATENATE(E#,F#,G#,H#,L#,I#,L#,J#,K#) # is the row number
Column E =IF(AZ#="—‹", IF(BA#="-","F","B"),IF(BA#="—‹","I","X"))
Column F =IF(S#0, CONCATENATE(0,LEFT(S#,3)),"xxxx")
Column G =IF(AF#="A","A",IF(AF#="V","V","X"))
Column H =B#
Column I =IF(ISBLANK(AG#)=TRUE,"xxxx",AG#)
Column J =IF(ISBLANK(AM#)=TRUE,"xxx",LEFT(AM#,3))
Column K =IF(ISBLANK(AP#)=TRUE,"xxxxx"Left(AP#,5))
Column L =_

Column B has ID numbers in it.

Now what I need to do is add Column AX in this formula that takes values
from both AX and AF. When AX has value of 1.1 and AF has either A or V, I
need Column E to respond with a 1F or 1B, instead of just F or B. But when
AX has value of 1.0, I need F or B returned.

Roger Govier was kind enough to suggest this formula:

=IF(AND(AX8=1.1,OR(AF8="A",AF8="V")),"1"&IF(AZ8="? ",
IF(BA8="-","F","B"),IF(BA8="?","I","X")),"")

It works fine if I have AX value of 1.1, but when I have value 1.0, I loose
my F or B. I tried to understand how this works, but unfortunately I don't.
So if anyone can help me, please do and I thank anyone that willing to take a
look at this.

I hope I explained this well enough.