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Excel's IF Statements Are My Secret Weapon for Smarter Spreadsheets

An IF statement in Excel evaluates a condition and returns a value based on a true or false outcome. Nested IF statements allow testing multiple conditions within a single formula. You can also use ...
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How to Write an If/Otherwise Statement in Excel

Each IF function in an Excel spreadsheet returns one of two messages. The first -- the "if" message -- displays if cells meet criteria that you specify. The second -- the "otherwise" message -- ...
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Excel’s IF statement made easy

Excel is many things: powerful, useful, colorful, handy, but its logic functions can be challenging to newcomers due to their implied logic, and a shorthand syntax designed to fit on a single line in ...
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If you’re still nesting IFs in Excel, you’re doing it the hard way

When you only need two outcomes, the IF function is fine. But the moment you start stacking conditions (if this, then that, otherwise if this, then that), you’re building a house of cards. At first, ...
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Use Excel’s DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, and IF/OR to make weekly schedules by task, event and team member

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...