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BDB1973
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Apr 05, 2020

Trouble with formulas MIN/MAX within IF statements

I'd like the result to be either the sum of the parts, or, if the parts exceed 100, 100.  I've tried multiple variations of IF statements to get there, and tried including MIN/MAX within the IF state...
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      BDB1973
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 05, 2020

      SergeiBaklan and Riny_van_Eekelen 

       

      A slight change to the MIN statement provided solved the problem.  Instead of using
       =MIN(100,SUM(D3,D6,D9,D12,D15,D18)),  the cell range in my actual file, changing the 100 to 1 did the trick. So the properly constructed, working formula is now =MIN(1,SUM(D3,D6,D9,D12,D15,D18)), which caps the percentage at 100% or returns the actual summed result that is less than 100%.


      Many thanks!

      BDB1973 

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      BDB1973
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 05, 2020

      Thanks for the quick reply. In my actual file, the MIN statement provided would look like this:

       =MIN(100,SUM(D3,D6,D9,D12,D15,D18)). But the result is still 112%, when I want to limit it to 100%.  If I use MAX instead, the result is 10000% Using MAX and adding /100 of the formula gets the result desired, but don't believe that's the right way to go about it.

      • Detlef_Lewin's avatar
        Detlef_Lewin
        Silver Contributor
        Apr 05, 2020

        BDB1973 

        Your values are in %. Replace the 100 with 1.

    • Riny_van_Eekelen's avatar
      Riny_van_Eekelen
      Platinum Contributor
      Apr 05, 2020

      SergeiBaklan Of course!! My fingers just didn't do what my mind was thinking 🙂

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