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When using a pop up menu i only have numbers in there e.g. $50. What i want to have in there is 3hrs instead of $50 because that's what will be relevant but
the formula sees 3hrs as $50 so the spreadsheet still works. If i add letters eg $50 = 3hrs I get the following error message
It would be great if its could say 3hrs instead of $50 4hrs instead of $70 5 hrs instead of $80
Hope that all makes sense and someone can help me
Many thanks
Danny Kirk

Hi Danny,
When you put a mixture of numbers and letters into a cell, Numbers treats it as a (text) string. The arithmetic operators ( +, - * and / ) work only with numbers, duration values, and Date & Time values. You are getting an error because a formula using the value placed in the cell by the pop-up menu expects a number, but you have given it a (text) string.
You can supply the operator with the number 50, formatted as currency ( $50 ), or you can provide a duration ( 3h ). If you place the operator into a formula that can use the type of value you choose, you will not get the error message.
There does not appear to be a linear relationship between the number of hours and the number of dollars. Unless you can specify a relations ship that can be expressed mathematically, you will need to use a lookup table to match the hour values in the pop-up's menu to the related dollar value to be returned.
Here's a simple example. Note that "3h" (without the quotes) as used in SGIII's example above is a Duration value, "3hrs" (again without the quotes) will be interpreted by Numbers as a duration, and will be automatically reformatted to display as "3h". The dollar amount has been entered (and displayed) as a number. The Amount column on the Main table has been formatted as Currency, with the default two decimal places.
The formula in each cell of Main::Column A is: =LOOKUP(B,Lookup :: A,Lookup :: B)
(LOOKUP is the name of the function used. "Lookup" is the name of the table from which the information is retrieved.)
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