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title: How to Use Custom Formulas
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# How to Use Custom Formulas

### **IMPORTANT**

**It is very important to first create a NEW measurable to hold the data from the formula you will create. If you use an existing measurable your data will be changed and the old formatting will be lost and cannot be retrieved.**

### Create a Formula

1. Click **My** **Meetings **from the left menu bar.
2. Click on the meeting you'd like to work on.
3. Click **Metrics**
4. Click the blue '**+**' next to Metrics.
5. Give the measurable a Name, assign an accountable owner, unit label, frequency, goal, and operator.
6. Click **More options**.
7. Check the **Formula** checkbox. 
8. Click **Apply formula**.
9. Click **Show Help **on the right side to view all of the available functions.
10. Begin typing the title of an existing measurable or the name of the owner of an existing measurable, and select from the options the metric that will be part of the formula.
11. Input operators, for example +, -, \*, /,(,)
12. Choose your second measurable (Repeat this step if necessary)
13. An example of a custom formula could be: **Weekly sales + Transportation costs, **being separate measurables with the operator ' + ' in the middle.
    
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14. Click **Save.**
15. The data from your formula will be populated in the new measurable's cells and the row will show 'N/A'. This data will be unable to be edited directly and will be dependent on the measurable(s) listed in the formula.

### Delete a Formula Measurable

**Delete a measurable with a formula attached**

**From the My Meetings section:**

1. Click **Meetings **from the left menu bar.
2. Click **on the Meeting name.**
3. Click **Metrics** on the left.
4. Click the **Metric formula title** and click **Archive** at the bottom left corner.

**Delete a measurable with a formula attached (not part of any Meeting)**

> Ask an Admin on your Bloom Growth account, or reach out to the Client Success team for assistance.

**If you are an Admin, follow the steps below:**

1. Click your Organization name at the bottom left corner of the screen.
2. Click **Manage users.**
3. Click on the user's name who owns the measurable.
4. In the Metrics section, click **Edit** and use the trash can icon to delete the measurable.

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