I guess I should have mentioned that when you posted this...

Name - Color - B & W - Carbon - # of Pages - Print Shop - Self

I assumed it was meant to show the header text for Columns A through G
inclusive... if your have those headings (and associated data) in different
columns from those, you will have to adjust the cell references in my
formula accordingly.

Rick

"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote in
message ...
Assuming your data starts in Row 2 (with Row 1 being a header row), you
can calculate the cost per name (row) using this formula...

=IF(A2="","",E2*IF(OR(AND(B2<"",C2<""),AND(F2<" ",G2<"")),"0",IF(B2<"",0.0613+0.0087*(F2<""),0. 008+0.0055*(F2<""))))

and copy it down for the other names (rows). If there is no entry in A2,
an empty string is returned even if there are entries in the other cells
on the row. If A2 is filled in, then the formula returns 0 if both B2 and
C2 are not empty at the same time and 0 if both F2 and G2 are not both
empty at the same time. You can use anything you want to select between
Color and B/W and also between Self and Print Shop... you do not have to
restrict yourself to an "X" unless you want to.

Rick


"HeatherJG" wrote in message
...
I think I can probably figure out a convoluted, around-the-world way to do
this, but there's GOT to be an easier way. Unfortunately, I neither know
nor
understand anything at all about macros or creating functions, and I'm
afraid
that's what I'm going to need.

I'm trying to calculate the cost on forms we use. The base is .0135 for
b&w
and .07 for color if I go through the print shop, and .008 for b&w and
.0613
for color if I print it myself. Then it changes based on the number of
pages. I set my spreadsheet up with the following columns:

Name - Color - B & W - Carbon - # of Pages - Print Shop - Self

If I use the "Color" and "B & W" columns to just place an "X" in the cell
to
denote which it is, how can I calculate the cost for both the Print Shop
and
myself? Does that even make sense to anyone other than me?