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Hi All,
I have a spreadsheet which calculates the score for a particular item.
In cell M5, the answer should be 30 since the rating is 3 and weightage is 10 ( 3 X 10).
How do I automate this task via a formula ?
Appreciate help.
Thanks in advance.
Hi All,
I have a spreadsheet which calculates the score for a particular item.
In cell M5, the answer should be 30 since the rating is 3 and weightage is 10 ( 3 X 10).
How do I automate this task via a formula ?
Appreciate help.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Kumara_faith; 03-20-2009 at 12:30 AM.
Put this in M5 and copy down:
=MATCH("√",D5:I5,0)*K5
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Hi there,
The formula works.
I am just curious. How does the formula know what the value of the rating is since I dont see the formula referencing any of the rating cells ?
MATCH returns the position of the matched value within lookup_array, not the value itself. For example, MATCH("b",{"a","b","c"},0) returns 2, which is the relative position of "b" within the array {"a","b","c"}.
You made it easy. The MATCH formula returns a numeric "place in array" as an answer. So, I looked for the checkmark in a range of 6 cells and it returns the "place" in that array that it is found. For instance, the first checkmark is found in the THIRD position of the array, so the formula returns a "place" answer of 3.
The fact that you've also labeled those rows with the same exact number is sheer coincidence and allowed us to stop there. If the columns had OTHER values in them (like 5,10,15,20 etc), then we would have had to use a combination of INDEX/MATCH.
That formula would have been:
=INDEX($D$4:$I$4,MATCH("√",D5:I5,0))*K5
Thank you for the explanation.
This has been solved.
Thank you again for your time and patience.
Last edited by Kumara_faith; 03-16-2009 at 08:39 PM.
If that takes care of your need, be sure to EDIT your original post (Go Advanced) and mark the PREFIX box [SOLVED]
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