I have a field with varying number of characters, I need function that
returns a value based on the number of characters in field.

ie if field x <2 characters = 1 2 characters = 2

Thanks

Use the LEN function. Look it up in Excel help.
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David Biddulph

"Perplexed" wrote in message
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I have a field with varying number of characters, I need function that
returns a value based on the number of characters in field.

ie if field x <2 characters = 1 2 characters = 2

Thanks

How about exactly 2 chars?

=MAX(IF(LEN(A1)=2,2),1) returns 1 if <2 otherwise returns 2


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:47:00 -0800, Perplexed
wrote:

I have a field with varying number of characters, I need function that
returns a value based on the number of characters in field.

ie if field x <2 characters = 1 2 characters = 2

Thanks

Here is one more formula for you to consider...

=1+(LEN(A1)=2)

You didn't define what should happen if there are exact two characters in
the cell, so I treated it the same as when there are more than two
characters in the cell. If that is wrong, just change the = to by itself.

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Perplexed" wrote in message
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I have a field with varying number of characters, I need function that
returns a value based on the number of characters in field.

ie if field x <2 characters = 1 2 characters = 2

Thanks

Hi

=MIN(LEN(A4),2)

However, since you didn't tell us what to do if len=2, I choose to treat it
as =2

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Shane Devenshire


"Perplexed" wrote:

I have a field with varying number of characters, I need function that
returns a value based on the number of characters in field.

ie if field x <2 characters = 1 2 characters = 2

Thanks