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Harlan Grove  
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 More options Dec 26 1999, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
From: "Harlan Grove" <Hrln...@aol.com>
Date: 1999/12/26
Subject: Re: "Tally" or "Five-Bar Gate" function?
William Phillip Michael Hunt <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8462ac$a46$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...

> Hello everyone,
>   I was wondering if there existed a function for making five-bar gate
type
> representations of numbers...
> You know, where it goes |   ||   |||    ||||    and then |||| but struck
> out, then a new group starts. (Totally useless for more than about 20, but
> dead handy for smaller figures.)

Try this:

=REPT(REPT(CHAR(134),4)&" ",INT(A1/5))&REPT("|",MOD(A1,5))

In Arial, 17 becomes  ???? ???? ???? || . If you want a more vertically
centered strikethrough, you're on your own.


 
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