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    Question Problem with if <= formula not calculating correctly

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    Here is the formula that I am using

    =IF(F4="","",IF(G4<=D4,"Approved","Not Approved"))

    My problem is that the formula is always showing a true value even when it is not. The result in G4 is an absolute value. Not that that should affect but just thought I should say it.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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    Paul

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    Re: Problem with if <= formula not calculating correctly

    It is difficult to debug from a picture/screenshot. A representative, anonymized sample file would be better.

    That said, I notice that all of the values in column D have a little green triangle indicating some kind of error/warning associated with those cells/values. The first one I think of is "number stored as text". When it comes to "order", a text string is always "larger than" a number, so the text string "185.0" is larger than the number 186.5. The first thing I would do to debug this is to hover over the green triangle and see what error/warning is given. If it is "number stored as text", then the next step is to convert that column to real numbers (some strategies here: https://support.office.com/en-us/art...1-c5bad0f0a885 ).
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    Re: Problem with if <= formula not calculating correctly

    may be the change this

    the D4 to E4
    PHP Code: 
    =IF(F4="","",IF(G4<=E4,"Approved","Not Approved")) 
    or
    G4 to F4
    PHP Code: 
    =IF(F4="","",IF(F4<=D4,"Approved","Not Approved")) 

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