With AARAGG in B2, put this in C2:

=SUMPRODUCT(LOOKUP(RIGHT(B2,ROW(A$1:A$6)),{"A","G" ,"R"},{2,1,3})*(11-
ROW(A$1:A$6)))

This assumes that you will always have 6 characters in column B. I'll
work on it a bit more to see if I can tweak it to respond to fewer
characters.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Aug 26, 10:19*pm, "Terry Bennett"
wrote:
I have a column of data in which recent test results are recorded. *Column A
specifies the shop and in column B the data is recorded in the format
'AARAGG' where R = Red, A = Amber and G = Green. *These are, in effect, the
6 most recent test results, with the latest on the right of the text string.
Usually there will be six results recorded, but sometimes there could be
less and occasionally more (never more than 8).

What I need to do is to come up with a formula that converts the text into a
numeric value, reflecting the risk at each unit. *Hence, Red needs to be 3
points, Amber 2 and Green 1. *Also, there needs to be a weighting towards
the most recent test such that the right hand value is multiplied by 10, the
next from right 9, and so on.

So, in the example above, counting from the right:

G = 1 * 10 = 10
G = 1 * 9 = 9
A = 2 * 8 = 16
R = 3 * 7 = 21
A = 2 * 6 = 12
A = 2 * 5 = 10

So the total returned in column C would be 78.

Any thoughts/ideas on how I can achieve this?

Many thanks.