How do I create a fixed value used in a number of different calcualtions?
For example I want to count the occurances of an item and multiply times a
fixed value known as cost?

=COUNTIF(A2:A100,"item")*Cost

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"Brian P" <Brian wrote in message
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How do I create a fixed value used in a number of different calcualtions?
For example I want to count the occurances of an item and multiply times a
fixed value known as cost?

Yes. Let's put $2.30 in cell A1.

Click on A1 and pulldown:

Insert Name... Define then enter cost in the name field and click Add.

at this point you can use cost as a variable name in your worksheet. For
example you can enter

=123*cost

in cell C34 and cost will be taken from A1
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"Brian P" wrote:

How do I create a fixed value used in a number of different calcualtions?
For example I want to count the occurances of an item and multiply times a
fixed value known as cost?