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 ...

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, ...

How to nest multiple IF Statements using text data? Consider cell A2 as the source cell, in which you will either enter a text or numeric value. Take as an example data in text format ranging from ...

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 -- ...