How do I create dynamic arrows that track movements

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Templeton - 20 Mar 2006 22:49 GMT

I want to be able to display up and down arrows pertaining to price movements
in a spreadsheet?

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Fred Smith - 21 Mar 2006 02:10 GMT

Use the Insert>Symbol... command. It will tell you the character number of the
symbol you want to use. Then put that in an If statement, as in:

=if(a1<b1,char(223),char (221))

Does this help?

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Fred

>I want to be able to display up and down arrows pertaining to price movements
> in a spreadsheet?

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Templeton - 21 Mar 2006 02:26 GMT

Thankyou, but is it possible to colour code them as well??

> Use the Insert>Symbol... command. It will tell you the character number of the
> symbol you want to use. Then put that in an If statement, as in:
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> >I want to be able to display up and down arrows pertaining to price movements
> > in a spreadsheet?

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Fred Smith - 22 Mar 2006 01:09 GMT

You would do that by formatting the cell.

Anticipating your next question, if you want to use green if the price is up,
and red if the price is down, use Conditional formatting.

Post back if you want help with either of these. A specific example would be
useful so we can help you get exactly what you want.

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> Thankyou, but is it possible to colour code them as well??
>
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Templeton - 22 Mar 2006 01:22 GMT

Fred, thanks for that but when I inserted the character reference it would
not accept the formula as the character reference had a combination of
Alpha/Numerics.
Maybe it's a language issue, or maybe there are specific symbols which you
can use in this case. Cell comes up with the #Value error.
You are correct in assuming the next question is about conditional
formatting, this I can do, it seems to be getting the symbol to display
correctly. I could get it to work with an Arabic symbol but not the arrows.

Ian T

> You would do that by formatting the cell.
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Fred Smith - 23 Mar 2006 03:20 GMT

You lost me. There should be no reason this doesn't work. What formula did you
use?

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> Fred, thanks for that but when I inserted the character reference it would
> not accept the formula as the character reference had a combination of
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