Using Numeric Values from Formulas

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Natalie Tarry

Hello All
I have created a formula in one column that returns a value of 5 if a given
line entry is more than 5 years old.

What I want to do is then say " if (and((d3>5, b3>0),"Yes","")
What this does is if the entry is over 5 years old and there is a value
greater than 0 in cell b3, then give a value of "yes".

However since cell D3 contains a formula it does not work! If I were to
manually type in the values in Column D then it works ok.

Is there a function in Excel that says "if the result of the formula >5"
then ....??

thanks
Natalie
 
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Ron Rosenfeld

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:30:43 -0700, "Natalie Tarry" <Natalie
Hello All
I have created a formula in one column that returns a value of 5 if a given
line entry is more than 5 years old.

What I want to do is then say " if (and((d3>5, b3>0),"Yes","")
What this does is if the entry is over 5 years old and there is a value
greater than 0 in cell b3, then give a value of "yes".

However since cell D3 contains a formula it does not work! If I were to
manually type in the values in Column D then it works ok.

Is there a function in Excel that says "if the result of the formula >5"
then ....??

thanks
Natalie
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Your formula SHOULD work. The problem is likely that the result of the formula
in d3 is not exactly 5. (or that it is not a number).

What, exactly, is in D3?, B3?

What, exactly, do you see if you format D3, B3 as General?


--ron
 
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Paul Sheppard

Natalie said:
Hello All
I have created a formula in one column that returns a value of 5 if a
given
line entry is more than 5 years old.

What I want to do is then say " if (and((d3>5, b3>0),"Yes","")
What this does is if the entry is over 5 years old and there is a
value
greater than 0 in cell b3, then give a value of "yes".

However since cell D3 contains a formula it does not work! If I were
to
manually type in the values in Column D then it works ok.

Is there a function in Excel that says "if the result of the formula
then ....??

thanks
Natalie
Click to expand...

Natalie

Your formula has too many brackets (, remove one of the brackets after
and so it reads as follows:

=IF(AND(D3>5,B3>0),"Y","")
 
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Natalie Tarry

Paul Sheppard said:
Natalie

Your formula has too many brackets (, remove one of the brackets after
and so it reads as follows:

=IF(AND(D3>5,B3>0),"Y","")
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Hi Paul

Thanks for the information re the brackets, but unfortunately it still does
not work.
If any of the cells in D3 are blank it still does not work. I need to add
something into the formula that says
=if(d3="","",if(and(d3>5,b3>0),"y","").

I have just created a little formula that says, in english, if D3>5, "Yes".
It gives a value of "Yes" to cells with " " in it ( with a formula behind
it).
If I delete the formula and delete everything from the cell, this solves the
problem!

Still confused!
Natalie



But it still doesn't solve my problem why
 
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Paul Sheppard

Natalie said:
Hi Paul

Thanks for the information re the brackets, but unfortunately it stil
does
not work.
If any of the cells in D3 are blank it still does not work. I need t
add
something into the formula that says
=if(d3="","",if(and(d3>5,b3>0),"y","").

I have just created a little formula that says, in english, if D3>5
"Yes".
It gives a value of "Yes" to cells with " " in it ( with a formul
behind
it).
If I delete the formula and delete everything from the cell, thi
solves the
problem!

Still confused!
Natalie



But it still doesn't solve my problem why
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Natalie

Post some example data with cell references so I can duplicate what yo
have, eg what is the formula in D3? what is in the cells that drive th
result in D3, it seems to work ok for me

It could be that D3 contains 5 so you are expecting Yes, when th
result in D3 might only be 4.999999999999999, but formatted to show
so you get blan
 
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