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Can Excel calculate populate table using row/column values & calc's on other sheet?

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    Can Excel calculate populate table using row/column values & calc's on other sheet?

    Hi folks, my first post here. Hope you can help.

    I've created a sheet that contains 2 user input variables, call them NUM1 and NUM2, followed by a bunch of calculations based on those 2 as well as other "static" values. Each calculation is done separately to keep it easy to follow. All that crunches out a number, call it RESULT The purpose of the entire sheet is to see what combinations of NUM1 and NUM2 make RESULT either negative or positive.

    NUM1 has about a dozen possibilites and NUM3 about 3 dozen which results in over 430 possible values for RESULT.

    Ultimately I want to display those results in a table with all possible values of NUM1 as column headers and NUM2 as row headers.

    Is there any way I can get Excel to populate each cell in the table with RESULT using the NUM1 column and NUM2 row headings?

    I know I could do this if the formula was simple but as I mentioned before, the steps to get from NUM1 and NUM2 to RESULT take up 40 rows. Most are simple single operator math but some are more complex. I'd never be able to get all those steps into one formula.

    Can it be done or am I stuck with going back and compressing all those 40 steps into one long fomula?

    Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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    I've attached a trimmed down version of the file...

    NUM1 and NUM2 are in cells C8 (press speed) and C9 (panel length) of MAIN sheet while RESULT is in F39 (Total wait time before...). The table I want to build is on the TABLE sheet.

    After tracing the precedents back from F39 I suppose I could cram all that into one formaula that I could replicate in the table but I know it would take me forever to get it right or I could manually do each combination and key in the values. Just wondering if there's an easier way.
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