using a popup menu to change value in other cell

I'm trying to do up a budget sheet for my household, I'm trying to use a pop up menu to change betwee n weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly etc.


I want this to convert the bill amount in one cell to a weekly figure, so if my car registration is every 6 months I can put that value into the bills column, select "6 monthly" in the frequency column, then it will tell me what the weekly amount is, in a weekly amount column.


this is one I have no idea where to start with what formula

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 24, 2024 6:56 PM

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Posted on Feb 24, 2024 7:52 PM

The conversions to weekly aren't exact and there are several ways to do them. For example, monthly-to-weekly conversion could be

Monthly/4 based on 4 weeks to a month (which is not true) or

Monthly*7/30 based on 360 days in a year =30 days in a month (which is not quite true) or

Monthly*7/(365/12) which is based on a 365 day year (which is not true 1/4 of the time).


None are quite right. I'm going to go with the 360 day year version that some financial functions use:

cell E2 =D2*IFS(A2="Weekly", 1, A2="Monthly", 7/30, A2="Quarterly",7/90,A2="Half Yearly", 7/180,"Yearly",7/360)

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Feb 24, 2024 7:52 PM in response to brainfreeze87

The conversions to weekly aren't exact and there are several ways to do them. For example, monthly-to-weekly conversion could be

Monthly/4 based on 4 weeks to a month (which is not true) or

Monthly*7/30 based on 360 days in a year =30 days in a month (which is not quite true) or

Monthly*7/(365/12) which is based on a 365 day year (which is not true 1/4 of the time).


None are quite right. I'm going to go with the 360 day year version that some financial functions use:

cell E2 =D2*IFS(A2="Weekly", 1, A2="Monthly", 7/30, A2="Quarterly",7/90,A2="Half Yearly", 7/180,"Yearly",7/360)

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