Adding two formula's together in one cell?

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I'm now working on a separate work book for our ebay sales, and in one of the cells that outputs the insertion fee is the following: (Be gentle with me lol, if I've done this the wrong way or it's over winded and could have been done simpler :) Any way it pulls the insertion fee's from another sheet so that if at a later date they put them up I can just start a new workbook and alter the fee's in that one sheet, but the problem is we sometimes list the same item in two categories so in theory our insertion fee is doubled, so to get around this I have added another column , so now have: one column with Category One P10, and column two with Category Two R10, in cell Z10 is the total insertion fee. But at the moment it just shows the fee's for Category One P10how can I also use the same formula but just add them together?

=IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="All Categories",T10>=0.01,T10<=0.99),'_Settings'!$M$8,IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="All Categories",T10>=1,T10<=4.99),'_Settings'!$M$9,IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="All Categories",T10>=5,T10<=14.99),'_Settings'!$M$10,IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="All Categories",T10>=15,T10<=29.99),'_Settings'!$M$11,IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="All Categories",T10>=30,T10<=99.99),'_Settings'!$M$12,IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="All Categories",T10>=10),'_Settings'!$M$13,IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="Media Related",T10>=0.01,T10<=0.99),'_Settings'!$M$15,IF(AND(N10="Auction",P10="Media Related",T10>=1),'_Settings'!$M$16,IF(AND(N10="Buy It Now",P10="All Categories"),'_Settings'!$AC$10,IF(AND(N10="Buy It Now",P10="Media Related"),'_Settings'!$AC$11,""))))))))))

Many many thanks in advance for any help, I'm very grateful.

Linda

PS the work book is so that I can see what fee's we are paying and our profit after fees, and so adjust accordingly.

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Linda wrote:

Cheers Joe, here's the linkhttp://www.lindaoraya.talktalk.net/eBay Sales WorkBook.zip

Thank you Joe, still haven't got to bed as yet. Daughter is ill so, looks like it's going to be a long night :(

Hope you and your daughter managed to get some sleep.

In the meantime, I had a chance to review your past explanations and look at your uploaded file. I realized that I had misunderstood some of the intended design, mostly due to my ignorance of eBay.

I have uploaded a file with some changes (click here). That file is an Excel 2003 file.

The primary change is in column Z. The formula is a correction to my previous efforts, to wit:

=IF(OR(N10="",AND(P10="",R10=""),T10=""), "",

IF(N10="Buy It Now",

IF(P10="",0,IF(P10="All Categories",_Settings!$AC$10,_Settings!$AC$11))

+IF(R10="",0,IF(R10="All Categories",_Settings!$AC$10,_Settings!$AC$11)),

IF(P10="",0,IF(P10="Media Related",

IF(T10<1,_Settings!$M$15,_Settings!$M$16),VLOOKUP(T10,_Settings!$G$8:$M$13,7)))

+IF(R10="",0,IF(R10="Media Related",

IF(T10<1,_Settings!$M$15,_Settings!$M$16),VLOOKUP(T10,_Settings!$G$8:$M$13,7)))))

A significant change is: you do not need the table I suggested in X1:Y6. Your existing table in _Settings!$G$8:$M$13 will suffice.

I suspect that the values in P10 and R10 are mutually exclusive if both are specified. That is, if P10 is "All Categories", I suspect that R10 is "Media Related" or empty; and vice versa. I also suspect that P10 will never be empty when R10 is non-empty. That is, you always use Category 1 first and only optionally also use Category 2.

Those observations might lead to some simplification of the formula. But I suspect only minor simplifications; for example, we probably do not need IF(P10="",0. But we still need IF(R10="",0.

If you confirm the observations above, I could look to see how much we can simplify the formula, if you wish. But I think it works well as is, and I suspect it is not overly complicated.

Note that I also made a number of other minor improvements in some unrelated formulas.

I simplified the SUM formulas in C4 and G4. Note that SUM can have at least as many as 30 parameters (XL2003 limit). XL2007 might permit more. I don't know.
I simplified the IF formulas in columns AP, AR and AZ. Let me know if you have any questions. In general, it is not necessary to test both of two complementary conditions. The change in column AZ also includes an arithmetic simplification.
I changed the lower limits in G8 and G15 in the _Settings worksheet from 0.01 to 0.00. That also required a format change for 0 values (3rd field). Although column T in the "eBay Sales" worksheet might never be zero, it is better to have 0.00 in the lookup table for technical reasons. "Defensive programming". Nevertheless, if you insist on 0.01, it probably will work that way.

Hope that helps.

[EDIT] PS: I forgot to mention a change that I did not make. I noticed some content in T1011:U1017 in the "eBay Sales" worksheet. I'm not sure what they are doing there; I did not find any formulas dependent on that data. I suspect it should be removed.

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2011-11-08T02:55:47+00:00

PS I wish they would set up a print style sheet for these forums. When you try to print from here the txt is about 5pt and totally unreadable sigh... I really want to keep a copy of all this. :(
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Anonymous

2011-11-08T04:30:56+00:00

Linda wrote:

PS I wish they would set up a print style sheet for these forums. When you try to print from here the txt is about 5pt and totally unreadable sigh... I really want to keep a copy of all this. :(

I copy and paste into Notepad, then print from there.
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Anonymous

2011-11-09T17:31:50+00:00

I wrote:

replace the formula that used to be in column Z with the following array formula [*]:

=IF((N10="")+(COUNTBLANK(P10:Q10)=2)+(R10="")>0, "",

SUM(IF(N10="Buy It Now",

IF(P10:Q10="",0,IF(P10:Q10="All Categories",_Settings!$AC$10,_Settings!$AC$11)),

IF(P10:Q10="",0,IF(P10:Q10="Media Related", IF(R10<1,_Settings!$M$15,_Settings!$M$16),

VLOOKUP(R10,_Settings!$G$8:$M$13,7))))))

Arguably better (less error-prone; more extensible), use this normal formula (not an array formula; just press Enter):

=IF(OR(N10="",COUNTIF(P10:Q10,"?*")=0,R10=""), "",

IF(N10="Buy It Now",

      _Settings!$AC$10*COUNTIF(P10:Q10,"All Categories")

      +_Settings!$AC$11*COUNTIFS(P10:Q10,"?*",P10:Q10,"<>All Categories"),

VLOOKUP(R10,_Settings!$G$8:$M$13,7)*COUNTIF(P10:Q10,"All Categories")

+ IF(R10<1,_Settings!$M$15,_Settings!$M$16)

     *COUNTIFS(P10:Q10,"?*",P10:Q10,"<>All Categories")))

This works without change if you simply add more subcategories to the drop-down menus in columns P and Q. But I presume that if do that, you will also insert additional category columns after column Q. In that case, change the range P10:Q10 accordingly; that's all.

This does assume that the fees for "Media Related" would apply to all additional subcategories.
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