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    Validating Multiple Ranges

    Hi everyone

    I have four non adjacent cells A1, A3, C1 and C3. Each cell contains a risk value of either "low", "medium", "high" or "extreme".

    I'm looking for some help with efficient code (Excel 2007) to validate the values in these cells, and record the highest level of risk in a variable called say "MaxRisk".

    I can achieve it with a bunch of messy IF tests (I have multiple series of these four cell clusters) but can't help thinking there has to be a smarter way.

    Hope someone can help.

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    Re: Validating Multiple Ranges

    if it is possible please attache your workbook with dummy data.
    please explain if any of cells(a1,a3,c1,c3) could be black or the same as each other.
    Recording highest level of risk thats mean only value (low, medium, high or extreme) without info which cell have it ?

    For now your task is quite difficult to understand how it should works

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    Re: Validating Multiple Ranges

    Hello

    if it is possible please attache your workbook with dummy data.
    please explain if any of cells(a1,a3,c1,c3) could be black or the same as each other.
    Recording highest level of risk thats mean only value (low, medium, high or extreme) without info which cell have it ?

    Here is an example spreadsheet. Hopefully this helps to explain. I need to evaluate each series of four cells and record the highest value (which I have manually added) as a varaible.

    Thanks

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    Re: Validating Multiple Ranges

    Hi,

    Does the attached help

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    Re: Validating Multiple Ranges

    Okay so here is what I have. It works, but as I said doesn't look efficient:

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    Hope someone more advanced than I am can assist. This is all part of a form for employees to fill out that is becoming increasingly more complex, so perhaps I'm being overly sensitive about how big all this code is getting ....

    Thanks.

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    Re: Validating Multiple Ranges

    Does the attached help
    Hi Richard

    Thanks - I might be able to work with it if I can configure the numbers. Currently 4 x medium looks like it evaluates to "Extreme".
    Hoping to get a VB version because the stored variable is then used elsewhere.

    Thanks.

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    Re: Validating Multiple Ranges

    try this function
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    Re: Validating Multiple Ranges

    Hi,

    Sorry, my error.

    Use the following 4 values in the small lookup table instead
    1,9,37,149

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