I need to use symbol names inside a formula, can anyone help me ?

What kind of symbol ?
You might want to use the "Security" function in order to call data from an other security.

Tell us more about what you want and we might be able to help you.

I want to write a conditional formula where I want a value 1 assigned to a variable x if the symbol is IBM, 2 if the symbol is MSFT, 3 if the symbol us PRTY etc.

 I believe someone else asked the same question a while ago and the answer was
 that you can not without doing programming outside of the basic Metastock
 language. Wabbit could tell you more if you want to pursue it further.
 Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

I just figured out how to do it from inside Metastock. Thanks anyways :)

ravik:

I want to write a conditional formula where I want a value 1 assigned to a variable x if the symbol is IBM, 2 if the symbol is MSFT, 3 if the symbol us PRTY etc.

I guess that would be something like :
If( C=Security("C:\MS\Data\IBM",C), value1, if(C=Security("C:\MS\Data\MSFT",C), Value2, if(C=Security("C:\MS\Data\PRTY",C), value3,0)))

How did you do it ? :)

Mate... try to give the exact path of MSFT....
i.e. C:\MSD\nse\NIFTY\MSFT...

sometimes MSFT is recognised by a number viz..70001113 so in that case replace MSFT with that number...
hope this solves ur problem...