Forum Discussion
Reverse scoring
Hi, Is there an automatic way to reverse score? I know the equation but it is slow and clumsy when you have multiple columns to reverse score. Thanks.
I don't know if others know what you mean by "reverse score"--I googled the term in order to learn, even found a YouTube video with one solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oeP7gdCKLs
That video contains a solution with nested IF statements that I found a bit clunky, frankly. So IF that's the formula you know, I have a suggestion for a better way...but why don't you help me (and others) help you by giving a more complete description here?
- Are you working with the five-point scale or something else?
- What's the equation/formula that you know and are rejecting because of the volume of your data?
Personally, if you just want a suggestion or two, I think I would avoid the nested IFs in favor of either
- using VLOOKUP to retrieve the "reverse score" from a table (or one of the other methods of looking up a value and retrieving some other; XLOOKUP, INDEX & MATCH)
- using CHOOSE, unless you need to allow for 0 or N/A, in which case back to VLOOKUP
In any event, I don't think there's an "automatic" wand you can wave, somehow avoiding a formula or function of some kind.