Excel

[kia cat]

Anybody got an idiots guides to excel out there? trying to build a simple spreadsheet for my credit card. purchases have 2.95% added while cash paid in via paypoint has 3% deducted from it.
Tried with the 'IF' function, if I keyed in a minus figure add percentage etc. but got hopelessly lost! Any ideas, please. Wanted to keep it clear + simple, 2 columns and a running total, if you get my drift. Thx

[gen2]

=IF(A1

[RATTER15]

Look on youtube, some really great detailed instructions to do most excel tasks.

Example here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhEGlFQhOo

[gen2]

Oh @@@@!
AB doesn't like greater than and less than signs - it thinks they are HTML tags.
I'll type that again using a different sign that you will have to replace with the 'less-than' symbol.


=IF(A1^0; A1*1.0295; A1*0.97)
where A1 is the cell containing the paid-in/spent amount.
and the ^ has to be rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise to make a less-than symbol.

[gen2]

Just testing to see if I can get AB to print a 'less-than' sign

how about -IF(A1 < 0, etc

otherwise everything after the symbol (and the symbol) is ignored
=IF(A1

[THECORBYLOON]

If you have four columns, you can have

A1= Bought B1=Cost C1=Paid In D1= Running Total.

In D2, enter the current figure owed.

In D3, enter the following,

=IF(AND(B3="",C3=""),"",(D2+(B3*1.0295)-(C3*0.97)))

If you know what auto fill is, do that for the rest of column D. If you don’t know what that is, highlight D2, move the cursor until you see a wee ”+” in the bottom right corner and drag it down as far as you want. That will paste the formula in the rest of the column.

The “IF” and “AND” bit of the formula is so that it shows blank when there are no figures in both columns.

[kia cat]

Thanks all. Will try that later, much appreciated ;)

[kia cat]

Ratter: thanks, great video link I learnt a lot from that,
gen: thanks, I tried, with the formula, but am too dense to get it to work!
corby loon: yours was the nearest solution I could get working, I did have to change the last minus sign for a plus to make it work. [that's not criticsm!] :)
Thanks all, now if I can get Adobe to play nicely ....!

[kia cat]

Sorry, Ratter & others, can I adapt your formula so that the input is just one column?
a negative figure for paying out [ to which 2.95% is added] and a paying in figure [from which 3.00% is deducted]

A1= Date B1=Cost/Paid In D1= Running Total.
In D2, enter the current figure owed.
In D3, enter the following,
=IF(AND(B3="",C3=""),"",(D2+(B3*1.0295)+(C3*0.97))) . Or shall I just quit while I'm ahead!

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt it's copyrighted, adapt as required, it's the way to learn :-)