Converting A If Formula In MS Excel To A MS Access Command/Query

[JudeFrancis]

Excel Formula:

=IF(U6<2,Z6*1,IF(U6<5,Z6*1.5,IF(U6<11,Z6*2,IF(U6<21,Z6*3,IF(U6<100000,Z6*5)))))

=IF(V5<2,AA5*0.8,IF(V5<5,AA5*1,IF(V5<11,AA5*1.5,IF(V5<21,AA5*2,IF(V5<100000,AA5*3)))))

=IF(W5<2,AB5*0.5,IF(W5<5,AB5*0.8,IF(W5<11,AB5*1,IF(W5<21,AB5*1.5,IF(W5<100000,AB5*2)))))

=IF(X5<2,AC5*0.3,IF(X5<5,AC5*0.5,IF(X5<11,AC5*0.8,IF(X5<21,AC5*1,IF(X5<100000,AC5*1.5)))))

=IF(Y5<2,AD5*1,IF(Y5<5,AD5*1,IF(Y5<11,AD5*1,IF(Y5<21,AD5*1,IF(Y5<100000,AD5*1)))))

P.S- I tried converting these formulas as separate IIF functions in Access and it worked.

But as I want it all together as a single field but it is showing up as "it is a too complex function for MS Access to process" .Please do help me out regarding this.

[Seth Schrock]

Try the Switch() function. This behaves like a Select Case statement. In combination with the Between function, I think that it would be much easier to understand what is happening. The following example still uses the cell references, so those would need to be changed to the appropriate field or control references.

=Switch(U6 Between 0 and 1, Z6 * 1
, U6 Between 2 And 4, Z6 * 1.5
, U6 Between 5 And 10, Z6 * 2
, U6 Between 11 And 20, Z6 * 3
, U6 Between 21 And 100000, Z6 * 5)

The other, more manageable approach would be to create a table that has three fields: LowRange, HighRange, Factor. This allows for you to easily change the ranges and the factors. Then you can just find the record that your values fits into and get that range.