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[Pat]

This will probably be another 'duh!' for me, but I can't get a conditional formula to work.

I am trying to get a value to appear in red when it is out of range. Yes, the values 'not between' works dandy. This time, however, the range depends upon the gender of the person. So here is the formula I wrote:

Case (

Gender__lxt = "Male " and RBC__lxn > 5.9;

TextColor ( RBC__lxn ; RGB ( 237 ; 31 ; 36 ) );

Gender__lxt = "Female " and RBC__lxn > 5.1;

TextColor ( RBC__lxn ; RGB ( 237 ; 31 ; 36 ) );

Gender__lxt = "Male " and RBC__lxn < 4.5;

TextColor ( RBC__lxn ; RGB ( 237 ; 31 ; 36 ) );

Gender__lxt = "Female " and RBC__lxn < 4.1;

TextColor ( RBC__lxn ; RGB ( 237 ; 31 ; 36 ) );

TextColor ( RBC__lxn ; RGB ( 7 ; 4 ; 4 ) )

)

What I thought this said was, if conditions are #1, print red; if not, going on to conditions #2, if true, print red, if not going on to condition # 3, if true, print red, if not going on to conditions #4, print red, and if any not true, then print in black.

What did I do wrong this time?

Thanks for reading about, and possibly helping, my dilemma!

Edited July 15, 2009 by Guest

[comment]

1. Where is the "print in black" part?

2. Why is there a trailing space in "Male " and "Female "?

3. You could shorten your logic to: if condition #1 is true OR condition #2 is true OR condition # 3 is true OR condition #4 is true, print in red - otherwise print in black.

[Pat]

Thanks. The original had the correct color numbers. I just removed the extra space, and that didn't help any. I have actually cut the formula to just the first condition (record is a male) and put various values in the field, and they all come out red. So is something wrong with the and statement?

[comment]

Is RBC__lxn a Number field?

[Pat]

yes, gender is text and RBC is number

[comment]

Then I don't know. Perhaps you should post a file showing the problem.