Transfer ceiling function of excel to Access

Try,

=(Int((C34*1.03)/24,5) + 1)*24

That gives an error of "function contains the wrong number of arguments"

Say [MyValue] contains the original number you had in C34,

NewValue:(Int([MyValue]/24)*5))*24

or

NewValue:(Int([MyValue]/24)*5)+1)*24    ' I am not sure about +1

Mike

Hi jainesteer


There is no roundup or rounddown function in Access, I wrote one that can be called in SQL if you want it, let me know.

If you use the backslash integer divisor it will always return an integer, truncating the decimal part.

Think this is mathematically correct,
but as soon as you round it up to the nearest 5 no guarantee it will be divisible by 24 anymore
(((((12345*1.03)\24)*24)+5)\5)*5

returns: 12700

To round down dont add 5
((((12345*1.03)\24)*24)\5)*5

Returns: 12695

 


Alan

Igno my post... I leave it up to real experts (Alan and  Nestorio)

Mike

Mike, what the...?

I've learnt many a neat trick from you mate.


Alan

my 2cs.

I just let excel to what it does best

Function myCeiling(lNumber, lSignificance) As Double
'Needs a refrence to Microsoft Excel Object Library ?.?
'To do this, in VBA window, Tools - Refrences and tick it from the list
myCeiling = Excel.WorksheetFunction.CEILING(lNumber, lSignificance)

End Function

Sub testIt()

MsgBox myCeiling(0.5, 1)

End Sub

Alan:  I need to be sure so I don't think I will go with your suggestion - but thanks for the effort

Mike:  I did not seem to get the right answer

Flavo:  It is more than I wanted to do with the problem but I suppose at least I know that it will work.   Which leads me to the question, how to make it work.  I was wanting to run a macro from Access that effectively ran a query and dropped the result into excel.  If the query is designed to create a new excel spreadsheet, do you have any idea how I could populate this field directly from the macro?

jainesteer: what do you need to be sure of?

Why not just recreate the ceiling function as a custom function and use that?

Function pCeiling(dblValue As Double, dblSig As Double) As Double
If Int(dblValue / dblSig) <> dblValue / dblSig Then
    pCeiling = Int(dblValue / dblSig) * dblSig + dblSig
Else
    pCeiling = dblValue
End If
End Function

This will work OK but does not check that the signs are the same.

=(pCeiling((C34*1.03)/24,5))*24


HTH

Peter

> " If the query is designed to create a new excel spreadsheet, do you have any idea how I could populate this field directly from the macro?"
Sometimes, depending on the method used for the transfer, you can write functions into Excel. If the query has something like:
    FunctionXL: "= CEILING( RC[-1] * 103%, 120)"
This would create a function taking the next multiple of 120 for 103% of the cell in the previous column...

Good Luck!

Thanks everyone - all for something that I thought should be so straightforward.  I will go with Harfang with the  =  ( INT( (C34*1.03)/120 ) +1 ) *120
I have put this into the sql and all works well.  From there I will just pull the field into Excel as I do with all of the others in that query.