Excel: Edit Column A if Column B equals value

Question

I have two columns in my excel file. Column A is numeric values and Column B is units (kg/g). I need to convert all values to g (like in column c). Here's an example:

A        B     C
0.75     kg    750.00
0.80     kg    800.00
700.00   g     700.00
500.00   g     500.00

I was looking at VBA scripts but since I haven't used them before I'm not able to edit them to my needs at all. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you didn't want to use VBA (and you shouldn't need to, really), the formula above from @tom_preston is almost correct.

In "C2", you can use the formula =IF(B2="kg",A2*1000,A1) and just copy it down the line.

Answer 2

If you want it written in VBA as the question above asked here is the code that would be placed in a worksheet module.

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)

Dim cellChanged As Range, c As Range

Const myVal As String = "kg"

Set cellChanged = Intersect(Target, Columns("B"))

     If Not cellChanged Is Nothing Then
        For Each c In cellChanged
             If UCase( c.Value) = UCase(myVal) Then
                c.Offset(, 1).Value = c.Offset(, -1).Value / 1000
             else
                c.Offset(, 1).Value = vbnullstring
            End if
        Next
      End if
End Sub

How that helps have a great day!