Linking two values, then to be able to change one to see how the other is affected

[mpeters87]

Hi there,

I’ve been struggling to figure this out, and I’d appreciate any help.

I have a very basic table. One column is the name of products, the second column how many were sold, and the third column how much money was made off those sales. I’d like to set up away to link the two values. I’d then like to be able to change the value in the number sold to see how it would affect the money made, and to be able to set a money made target, to be able to see how many would need to be sold to make that much money.


Writing out it seems so simple but I’m just not familiar with how to do this. I’ve attached an example worksheet. Let's assume the columns are A, B and C.

Thank you in advance.

Note: the actual sheet I’d be using uses vlookups to populate the cells, but I have left them as values for the sake of this.



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[TD="width: 169, bgcolor: transparent"][/TD]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"]Quantity[/TD]
[TD="width: 64, bgcolor: transparent"]Profit[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Sesame Seeds[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]4,500[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]31[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Quinoa[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]4,800[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]960[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Bulgur & Quinoa[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]594[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]650[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Monkey Nuts[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]2,520[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]1,246[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Peanuts R&S[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]3,024[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]978[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Macedonian[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]11,880[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]2,793[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]Onassis Giant Beans[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]2,288[/TD]
[TD="bgcolor: transparent"]627[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[Toadstool]

A cell can either be a value or a formula (unless you use VBA) so I'd leave your three columns unchanged and add three more for overrides and results:

	A	B	C	D	E	F
Quantity	Profit	Message
Sesame Seeds	Sales of 50000 gives profit of 344
Quinoa	Profit of 2500 needs sales of 12500
Bulgur & Quinoa
Monkey Nuts
Peanuts R&S	Sales of 25000 gives profit of 8085
Macedonian
Onassis Giant Beans	Profit of 1000 needs sales of 3649

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</thead><tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]Override Quantity[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Override Profit[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]4,500[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]31[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]50,000[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]4,800[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]960[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]2,500[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]594[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]650[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]2,520[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1,246[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]3,024[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]978[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]25,000[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]11,880[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2,793[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]

[TD="align: center"]8[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]2,288[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]627[/TD]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1,000[/TD]

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mpeters87​

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[TD="align: left"]=IF(E2&D2="","",IF(D2="","Profit of "&E2&" needs sales of "&INT((B2/C2)*E2),"Sales of "&D2&" gives profit of "&INT(D2/(B2/C2))))[/TD]
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I could add a check that you don't enter both overrides and I could use TEXT to format the number results but I'll keep it simple.