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Mar 31, 2022 05:27 AM
Hi all! I just started doing taxes as a small business and I figured I’d make an airtable chart to keep track of all the different tax rates in different counties. However, what I’m running into is this:
When I go to formatting I get the response: Your result type is not a number or a date. Formatting options are currently only available if your result type is a number or a date.
Here is my formula:
IF(
SEARCH("Online", {Location}),
"0%",
IF(
SEARCH("Wake", {Location}),
"2%",
IF(
SEARCH("Durham", {Location}),
"2.25%"
)
)
)
I’ve tried both with and without the % symbol.
To be fair, the return in that column works fine but I can’t then make a later formula using those values because it doesn’t recognize them as numbers. Here’s a screenshot of the table
I saw in another thread that maybe doing a separate tax rates table would help, but I am unsure how to set it so that if I click “Durham” on my Location it would apply the Durham Tax Rates to the rest of the line. However, that method might be more useful in the long run since I could easily change one number on one spreadsheet rather than updating each individual column’s IF statement.
Any assistance is appreciated! I haven’t done a ton of formula building with airtable and find it a bit more difficult than sheets/excel.
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Mar 31, 2022 05:28 AM

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Mar 31, 2022 05:28 AM
Remove the quotation marks and the percentage symbols from your numbers.

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Mar 31, 2022 05:33 AM
… are you kidding me :rofl:
That worked perfectly! I was using a copy-paste from someone else’s IF statements and just assumed the quotations had to be there! Thank you!
