I need help with a formula!!

[Transporter]

I'm in charge of the transportation department for a community clinic, and am creating a workbook that tracks the mileage on the vans we use. I want to include a formula that will alert me when a van has passed a certain mileage.

The only formula I am aware of is "=IF(A1=mileage, "x". "")"

The problem is that I want it to apply to this setup:

-Date- -Start- -End-
1/1/09 44,000 44,100
.
.
.
1/31/09

As I understand it, I need a formula that uses a matrix in order to track the "Start" and "End" miles for all 31 days.

Any ideas?

 

[rfinkels]

There are a few ways to do what you are doing.

If you want a formula then something along the lines of (where maxvalue is your mileage you wish to be alerted at):

=IF(OR(B2>maxvalue,C2>maxvalue),"Mileage exceeded","")

put this into a fourth column and it will show you "mileage exceeded" in the fourth row at the point (and actually every day after) you reach the maxvalue

The second choice is using conditional formatting.

Select the cell go to Format -> Conditional formatting
Then select "Cell Value is" and "less than" and put in the mileage you wish to be alerted at. Then set the format to have a red background. This will make all the cells red after the point where you have excceded the set mileage.

Hope that helped.