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I found an Excel function that replaced three nested IFs I'd been writing for years

For many of us, before we’ve even finished thinking through a problem, we’ve already started writing IFs. Nested Excel IF statements work; they’re familiar, and they’ve been part of Excel for as long ...
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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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Stop writing nested IFs and IFS formulas in Excel: Use SWITCH instead

Messy Excel formulas are more than just an eyesore—they're harder to maintain. Every repeated cell reference and tangled parenthesis makes your work difficult to audit, edit, and share. That's why you ...
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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 ...
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How to add a conditional format that highlights groups in Excel

Learn how to add a highlight to expose groups in your Microsoft Excel data using a helper column and Excel’s conditional formatting feature. The article, How to use a border to discern groups more ...