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tester

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Is there a way that you can have a word representing a number and then add up the number at the end of the row but leaving the word showing in its cell? For example: If "Red" was written in a cell and I wanted the word "Red" to represent the number 3 but still only seeing the word "Red" in the cell. And then being able to add up the number 3 along with similar number-representing words at the end of the row. Please help
 
Good evening tester

You would have to have a table listed somewhere, with all your colours listed vertically in one column and the numbers they represent in an adjacent column.

Then at the end of the row, you would use a VLOOKUP formula to retrieve the number that the word represents.

HTH

DominicB
 
How do I make a table? It keeps saying cell reference not found. I'm not a computer expert as you can see!
 
Good morning tester

Have a look at the attached file.
It has a table with a few colours, and their respective values.
Further down the page the colours are looked up from the table (using VLOOKUP) and added into a total.

HTH

DominicB
 
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