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Creolekitten

Can anyone please help me?
I can't seem to figure out the following formula:
If C3 + D3 is >= 20 then the value of 20 should be place in F3 but if C3 + D3
is < or not equal to 20 then the percentage of the value of of C3 + D3 should
be placed in F3.
Is there such a way to write this formula in Excel. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you
 
M

Michael M

Hi
try this in F3

=IF(C3+D3>=20,20,C3/D3)
The last bit could be slightly different because you don't explain what the
percentage actually is !!

HTH
Michael M
 
C

Creolekitten via OfficeKB.com

Hello and thank you so much. I'm trying to find out what the percentage of C
& D combined would be of 20. I think I forgot some more of the formula also
because at the same time if C3 + D3 is < or not equal to 20 I need to
calculate what percentage of the sum of C3 & D3 would be of 20%. If the sum
is greater than or equal to 20 then the only value I want to print is 20
because that would max it but if less than 20 then what is the percentage of
the sum of C3 and D3.

Michael said:
Hi
try this in F3

=IF(C3+D3>=20,20,C3/D3)
The last bit could be slightly different because you don't explain what the
percentage actually is !!

HTH
Michael M
Can anyone please help me?
I can't seem to figure out the following formula:
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greatly appreciated.
Thank you
 
F

Fred Smith

=20/(c3+d3)

is the percentage that c3+d3 is of 20.

However, now you have a display problem, because if c3+d3>20, you want the
number 20 displayed, but if it's less, you want a percentage displayed. A
possible solution is to display only percentages using the formula:

=if(c3+d3>=20,0.20,20/(c3+d3))

and format as percent.

If that's not what you want, give us specific examples of what you want
displayed in each circumstance.

There's always a solution.

--
Regards,
Fred


Creolekitten via OfficeKB.com said:
Hello and thank you so much. I'm trying to find out what the percentage of C
& D combined would be of 20. I think I forgot some more of the formula also
because at the same time if C3 + D3 is < or not equal to 20 I need to
calculate what percentage of the sum of C3 & D3 would be of 20%. If the sum
is greater than or equal to 20 then the only value I want to print is 20
because that would max it but if less than 20 then what is the percentage of
the sum of C3 and D3.

Michael said:
Hi
try this in F3

=IF(C3+D3>=20,20,C3/D3)
The last bit could be slightly different because you don't explain what the
percentage actually is !!

HTH
Michael M
Can anyone please help me?
I can't seem to figure out the following formula:
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
greatly appreciated.
Thank you
 
D

David Biddulph

=20/(c3+d3)

is the percentage that c3+d3 is of 20.

You may prefer (c3+d3)/20 rather than 20/(c3+d3) ?
However, now you have a display problem, because if c3+d3>20, you want the
number 20 displayed, but if it's less, you want a percentage displayed. A
possible solution is to display only percentages using the formula:

=if(c3+d3>=20,0.20,20/(c3+d3))

and format as percent.

If that's not what you want, give us specific examples of what you want
displayed in each circumstance.

There's always a solution.

Perhaps =MIN((c3+d3)/20,1) and format that as percentage, you'll get 100% as
the maximum when C3+D3>20. With Fred's solution [having inverted the
20/(c3+d3), see above], you'd get the same answer for a total of 4 as for
20, as both would show 20%

You could dispense with the formatting as percentage, and use
=IF(C5+D5>=20,20,(C5+D5)/0.2&"%")
but that would give a text answer in the percentage case, so couldn't be
used for further calculations.
 
C

Creolekitten via OfficeKB.com

Thank you for your help it's amazing how one little missing operand can cause
so much problems.
Bernie

David said:
Hello and thank you so much. I'm trying to find out what the percentage
of C [quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
of
the sum of C3 and D3.
=20/(c3+d3)

is the percentage that c3+d3 is of 20.

You may prefer (c3+d3)/20 rather than 20/(c3+d3) ?
However, now you have a display problem, because if c3+d3>20, you want the
number 20 displayed, but if it's less, you want a percentage displayed. A
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
There's always a solution.

Perhaps =MIN((c3+d3)/20,1) and format that as percentage, you'll get 100% as
the maximum when C3+D3>20. With Fred's solution [having inverted the
20/(c3+d3), see above], you'd get the same answer for a total of 4 as for
20, as both would show 20%

You could dispense with the formatting as percentage, and use
=IF(C5+D5>=20,20,(C5+D5)/0.2&"%")
but that would give a text answer in the percentage case, so couldn't be
used for further calculations.
 
C

Creolekitten via OfficeKB.com

Thank you for your help. Yes the percentage of c3 + d3 is of 20.
Bernie

Fred said:
=20/(c3+d3)

is the percentage that c3+d3 is of 20.

However, now you have a display problem, because if c3+d3>20, you want the
number 20 displayed, but if it's less, you want a percentage displayed. A
possible solution is to display only percentages using the formula:

=if(c3+d3>=20,0.20,20/(c3+d3))

and format as percent.

If that's not what you want, give us specific examples of what you want
displayed in each circumstance.

There's always a solution.
Hello and thank you so much. I'm trying to find out what the percentage of C
& D combined would be of 20. I think I forgot some more of the formula also
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