discount codes

  • Hi, I did this exercise years ago and for some reason cannot remember how I did it.


    I have a list of about 10000 parts. Each part has a letter assigned to it in column B. Column C has a price. I need to calculate a new price by using a multiplier stored in another table. The multiplier to use is determined by the letter in column B.


    This is a very basic example of what I'm dealing with. I'm looking at 10000 parts and about 50 different multipliers. Codes are generally three characters.
    [TABLE="width: 384"]

    [tr]


    [td]

    Part

    [/td]


    [td]

    Code

    [/td]


    [td]

    Price

    [/td]


    [td][/td]


    [TD="colspan: 2"]Multiplier
    [/TD]

    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12345
    [/TD]

    [td]

    A

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td]

    A

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]0.1
    [/TD]

    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12346
    [/TD]

    [td]

    B

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td]

    B

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]0.2
    [/TD]

    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12347
    [/TD]

    [td]

    C

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td]

    C

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]0.3
    [/TD]

    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12348
    [/TD]

    [td]

    B

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td]

    D

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]0.4
    [/TD]

    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12349
    [/TD]

    [td]

    B

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td]

    G

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]0.5
    [/TD]

    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12350
    [/TD]

    [td]

    A

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td]

    Z

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]0.6
    [/TD]

    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12351
    [/TD]

    [td]

    D

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12352
    [/TD]

    [td]

    Z

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]12353
    [/TD]

    [td]

    G

    [/td]


    [TD="align: right"]2.00
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [/tr]


    [tr]


    [TD="align: right"]Thank you!
    [/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [TD="align: right"][/TD]

    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [td][/td]


    [/tr]


    [/TABLE]

  • Re: discount codes


    A simple VLOOKUP - The Multiplier columns were moved over to Col E/F to make room for the new price


    =C3+(C3*VLOOKUP(B3, $E$2:$F$7, 2,FALSE))

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