"Gaurav" wrote:
Thanks Joe for the response. But it doesnt seem to
working as I want it to.
[....]
=IF(C4<11,0,IF(AND(C4=11,C4<12),0.4,IF(AND(C4=12 ,C4<13),0.6,IF(AND(C4=13,C4<14),0.8,IF(AND(C4=14 ,C4<14.5),1,IF(C4=14.5,(1+INT((C4-14)/0.05)*0.05),""))))))

Your mistake is writing "/0.05" instead of "/0.5" as I wrote it. You want
the number of 0.5 increments, not 0.05 increments.

Simplifying, your formula becomes:

=if(C4 < 11, 0, if(C4 < 14, 0.4 + 0.2*int(C4-11), 1 +
int((C4-14)/0.5)*0.05))

formatted as Percentage.

Oh well, it appears that your moved on to other solutions. Personally, I
think you'd be much happier in the long-run sticking closer to your original
formula, which is more malleable.


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"Gaurav" wrote in message
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Thanks Joe for the response. But it doesnt seem to working as I want it
to.

The daily sale is in C4 and here is my "previous" complete formula.

=IF(C5<11,0,IF(AND(C5=11,C5<12),0.4,IF(AND(C5=12 ,C5<13),0.6,IF(AND(C5=13,C5<14),0.8,IF(AND(C5=14 ,C5<14.5),1,IF(C5=14.5,(1+(C5-14)*0.1),""))))))

which I changed to the following after your suggestion.

=IF(C4<11,0,IF(AND(C4=11,C4<12),0.4,IF(AND(C4=12 ,C4<13),0.6,IF(AND(C4=13,C4<14),0.8,IF(AND(C4=14 ,C4<14.5),1,IF(C4=14.5,(1+INT((C4-14)/0.05)*0.05),""))))))

The previous one was increasing 1% with every .1 increase in the sale
value. and the one you suggested is increasing 10% with each .1 increase
in the sale value.

What I actually want is. a 5% increase with each .5 increase. so if the
increase in the sale value is .6 to .9, it would still increase 5%.

Thanks again for your help with this.



"JoeU2004" wrote in message
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"Gaurav" wrote:
so if a person's average daily sale is between
14 and 14.49, he gets 100%.
[....]
so basically each .5 increase in the figure will
increase the %age by 5.

Ostensibly, I think you want (A1 = daily sale):

=1 + int((A1-14)/0.5)*5%

formatted as Percentage.

But what if the daily sale is less than 14?

Perhaps you want one of the following:

' all sales <= 14 result 100% as well
=1 + int(max(0,A1-14)/0.5)*5%

' sales < 14 result in 0%
=if(A1<14, 0, 1 + int((A1-14)/0.5)*5%)

' reduce 100% by 5 pct pt for each 0.5 less than 14
=max(0, 1 + int((A2-14)/0.5)*5%)


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"Gaurav" wrote in message
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Hi,

I tried to explain the problem in the subject like but i know i failed
miserably. Anyway, here is the problem. so if a person's average daily
sale is between 14 and 14.49, he gets 100%. If it is between 14.5-14.9
he gets 105%. if it is 15.0-15.49, he gets 110% and so on. But I can not
put so many conditions in one formula...

so basically each .5 increase in the figure will increase the %age by 5.
But if it is less than .5 increase, it stays where it is. so if it is
14.6 or 14.7...14.9, it still remains 105% and the moment it reaches 15,
the %age increase by 5 more and becomes 110%

I hope I was able to explain it properly. Please help.

Thanks