James Elliott - WA Rural Computers skrev:
I am copying and pasting price lists from my main supplier into a calc worksheet and then increasing their wholesale price by my retail margin, prior to posting the list onto my own Web site.

Here is what I am actually doing (you may need to widen your e-mail client screen to make sense of the data - ie get the lines right):

1. I copy the price list from the supplier Web page and then copy it into M$ Notepad (to remove any formatting other than the tab delimiter) and get something like this in Notepad:

EDSXP7300V Small Office Home Office - economy E7300 C2D PC +MS Vista Home Premium (VHP) 790 EDSXP7300P Small Office Home Office - economy E7300 C2D PC +MS XP Professional (XPP) 830 EDSXP7300VM1 Small Office Home Office - economy E7300 C2D PC +MS VHP +19IN M/M WS LCD 950 EDSXP7300VM2 Small Office Home Office - economy E7300 C2D PC +MS VHP +22IN WS LCD 990 EDSXP7300PM1 Small Office Home Office - economy E7300 C2D PC +MS XPP +19IN M/M WS LCD 990 EDSXP7300PM2 Small Office Home Office - economy E7300 C2D PC +MS XPP +22IN WS LCD 1030

2. I then copy Notepad into a new, blank spreadsheet and optimise the column widths. The last couple of columns look like this:
                       column C Col D
E7300 C2D PC +MS Vista Home Premium          790
E7300 C2D PC +MS XP Professional                  830
E7300 C2D PC +MS VHP +19IN M/M WS LCD  950
E7300 C2D PC +MS VHP +22IN WS LCD          990
E7300 C2D PC +MS XPP +19IN M/M WS LCD  990
E7300 C2D PC +MS XPP +22IN WS LCD         1030

3.  I then us a formula to calculate the retail price where:

wholesale price in cell D1 = $790
mark-up is $200
Retail price is recorded in cell E1 = D1+200

4. One would expect the retail price to be 790 + 200 = 990 but according to Calc it is $200 ????

5.  if I use the formula E1=D1  I get 790.
    if I then edit that formula so it reads E1=D1+200  I get 200 ?

If anyone can throw some light on this I would be very much obliged.

Kind regards,  James


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One thing that will give this result is if D1 is formattet as text.
Erling Larsen


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