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=IF(AND(F2=N2;G2>O2);"No Notificar";"Notificar";IF(AND(F2=N3;G2>O3);"No Notificar";"Notificar";IF(AND(F2=N4;G2>O4);"No Notificar";"Notificar";IF(AND(F2=N5;G2>O5);"No Notificar";"Notificar";IF(AND(F2=N6;G2>O6);"No Notificar";"Notificar";IF(AND(F2=N7;G2>O7);"No Notificar";"Notificar")))))
As #KromeWing said - you've entered too many parameters for an IF formula.
It should have a logical calculation that would return TRUE/FALSE and then what to do if it's TRUE and what to do if it's FALSE.
Currently your formula reads as:
=IF(AND(F2=N2,G2>O2),"No Notificar","Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N3,G2>O3),"No Notificar","Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N4,G2>O4),"No Notificar","Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N5,G2>O5),"No Notificar","Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N6,G2>O6),"No Notificar","Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N7,G2>O7),"No Notificar","Notificar")))))
It should look more like:
=IF(AND(F2=N2,G2>O2),"No Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N3,G2>O3),"No Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N4,G2>O4),"No Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N5,G2>O5),"No Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N6,G2>O6),"No Notificar",
IF(AND(F2=N7,G2>O7),"No Notificar","Notificar"))))))
So if the first equation is TRUE it will show No Notificar, otherwise it will test the second equation. If all equations return FALSE then it will return Notificar.
IF has only 3 parameters.
Your consecutive IF should be the 3rd parameter, there is no 4th parameter in this formula.
You are expecting IF() to accept four arguments instead of three.
I often get messed up by nested ifs, too, and it's usually from having to think too hard.
To make things easier on yourself, both today and next month when you come back to this and have to try to figure out what the heck you were trying to do, try using alt-enter to add a new line within your formula, allowing you to format your formula like this:
=IF(test, valueIfTest,
IF(test2, valueIfTest2,
IF(test3, valueIfTest3,
...
valueIfAllTestsFail
)))
I find that as long as I stick to this format, the hardest part of the syntax is reduced to having the right number of closing parentheses at the end, but thanks to how Excel color-codes matching parentheses, I can manage that even when I'm caffeine-deprived!
I would like to set a multiple IF statement for my formula.
The reason behind it is, that I need to switch off the values (mark them as N/A and NA) which are equal to the other certain values as follows:
LP372/24/60+1=($NO372-720)/24/60+1 => mark them as N/A - the values, which don't happen during the midnight
and
LP372/24/60+1=$NO372/24/60+1 => mark them as NA - the values, that don't happen during the midday
The problem is, that I can't keep them under one IF statement, because I need the division.
So far I used only one IF statement (the nested one), which looks as follows:
=IF(OR((LP372/24/60+1)=(($NO372-720)/24/60+1), OR((LP372/24/60+1)=($NO372/24/60+1))),"N/A",LP372/24/60+1).
The value of NO372 corresponds to the rough time of the local midday. Substracting the 720 we are getting the rough midday for this location, knowing that the single day counts 24 hours x 60mins = 1440mins.
The formula above gives a nice result, but without the division between midday and midnight, which I am talking about.
Following my older query about the similar issue:
Double nested IF statement formula in Excel
I tried to solve it like this:
=IF(COUNTA(E1116:E1481),IF(OR((LP372/24/60+1)=(($NO372-720)/24/60+1),OR((LP372/24/60+1)=($NO372/24/60+1))),"N/A",LP372/24/60+1),"NA")
where the range E1116:E1481 corresponds to the whole year period (1.01 - 31.12).
Unfortunately I got nothing, similarity to this formula:
=IF(COUNTA(E1116:BC1116),IF(OR((LP372/24/60+1)=(($NO372-720)/24/60+1),OR((LP372/24/60+1)=($NO372/24/60+1))),"N/A",LQ510/24/60+1),"NA"),
where the E:1116:BC1116 range correspond to the all columns - circumstances as occur on January 1.
This formula was still not correct.
I found something on the web about the multiple IF statements:
which led me to the following formula
=IF((LP372/24/60+1)=(($NO372-720)/24/60+1);"N/A";IF((LP372/24/60+1)=($NO372/24/60+1);"NA")LP372/24/60+1)
Unfortunately again not correct.
The last attempt was an answer provided here:
Multiple IF statements in Excel
on which basis I built up another formula
=IF((LP372/24/60+1)=(($NO372-720)/24/60+1),"N/A",LP372/24/60+1,IF((LP372/24/60+1)=($NO372/24/60+1),"NA"))
this time Excel said, that I've entered too many arguments.
Is there a way to set up multiple IF statements?
I need to:
make the values equal to midnight as N/A,
make the values equal to midday as NA
keep the other values as they stand
This question was answered in the comments, but I thought I would add an answer with an example of how to nest IF statements for anyone that found this question because they are having issues with nesting IF statements.
When you add an IF statement to a formula in excel, you have to keep in mind that IF statements have 3 parts separated with commas:
The first value is the condition you are going to check
The second value is the value you want returned if that condition is true
The third value is the value you want returned if that condition is false
So here's an example that illustrates that:
=IF(condition to check, value if condition is true, value if condition is false)
Here is an example IF statement:
=IF(A1="Hello","World","something else")
If you are getting FALSE returned then your IF statement probably looks like this:
=IF(A1="Hello","World")
Notice that there are only 2 values inside this IF statement: the condition you are checking (A1="Hello") and what you want displayed if that is true ("World"). FALSE would be displayed if the value in A1 is something other than Hello because you haven't included the third value in the IF that defines what you want displayed if A1 is not Hello (this value is listed as something else in the example above)
It's best to try and avoid nesting IF statements if you can because they can be hard to keep track of. I would suggest using AND() or OR() instead if you can. They are very similar to each other, you list multiple conditions within the parens separated by commas that you will be checking against, and both evaluate to either True or False. The only difference is that for AND() every condition within the parens needs to be true for it to evaluate to True where OR() only one of the conditions listed in the parens needs to be true for it to return True.
So, for example, if you wanted to display World if A1 is Hello or Hi and you were to use nested IF statements it would look like this:
=IF(A1="Hello","World",IF(A1="Hi","World","something else"))
which in my opinion is really ugly. however, if you used OR() instead of nesting IF statements it would look like this:
=IF(OR(A1="Hello",A1="Hi"),"World","something else")
AND() works the same way, but instead of just needing one condition within the parens to be true to return True as OR() does, with AND() all conditions inside of the AND() need to be true to display your value instead of just one. here's an example AND():
=IF(AND(A1="Hello",B1=""),"World","something else")
in this case "World" would be displayed only if A1 is Hello AND B1 is empty
for both AND() and OR() you can have more than just 2 values inside if you need to check for more than 2 conditions, you just need to separate them each with commas, like this:
AND(condition1, condition2, condition3, ....)
OR(condition1, condition2, condition3, .....)
but, if you have to use nested IF statements, the easiest way I've found is to type IF( , , ) first thing to make sure you are allowing for all 3 values that need to be inside of the IF and you have the right amount of values inside the IF. If you are getting the message You've entered too many arguments for this function it is because you have entered more than 3 values inside your IF, like this:
=IF(A1="Hello","World","something else","this value is causing the issue")
so, to properly nest an IF in your formula, type IF( , , ) first off where you want the IF statement to be in your formula and then just fill in the blanks, then you avoid entering too few values which results in FALSE being displayed if your condition is not true or You've entered too many arguments for this function because you entered more than 3 values in your IF
Hope this helps to understand IF statements and how to nest them properly.
I have an issue that I don't personally know how to format. I need to subtract numbers that are in seconds, formatted to be viewed as 58.43 or 59.99, but that are sometimes in minutes, formatted as 1:01.33 for example.
I would also need to be able to subtract the numbers from each other to be recognized as (+1.08) or (-0.78), with the parentheses.
I'm sure I can elaborate somewhere, so let me know if this doesn't make any sense. Thanks
It depends if 58.43 is formatted as a number or time. Date and time are stored in number of days, so the time 58.43 is actually stored as the number 0.00067627314814814800000 (58.43/24/60/60).
If both values are time values, then the custom number format of the result can be:
(+s.00);(-s.00);(0.00);#
To handle both cases, instead of =A1-A2 you can try this something like this:
=IF(A1<1,A1,A1/86400)-IF(A2<1,A2,A2/86400)
If those are just time values formatted as mm.ss then you can use TIMEDIFF()
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Calculate-the-difference-between-two-times-e1c78778-749b-49a3-b13e-737715505ff6
If not, try to convert them to time values and than use TIMEDIFF()
The first part is straightforward
Apply a default format of
ss:00
Then in conditional formatting use a formula
=A2>=TIME(0,1,0)
and apply a format of
m:ss.00
for the ones that are a minute or more.
There is no direct solution to the problem of displaying negative times short of changing the default date system used by Excel as you can see in a number of references. The only way to do it here is to test whether the result is positive or negative and display the positive difference with or without a minus sign.
=IF(B2>=A2,TEXT(B2-A2,"(+s.00)"),TEXT(A2-B2,"(-s.00)"))
The downside of this is that they are actually text values and you can't use them in any further calculations. However the results of A2-B2 are still good even if you can't display them directly, so you can use A2-B2 in subsequent formulae if you want to even if it is negative.
I have the below formula and it works will except, when I have a refund, I want it to then show a negative value. I tried adding additional criteria but when I try to save it says I have gone over my maximum.
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("$100 pen",$B1)),($F1*97),
IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("$250 pen",$B1)),($F1*242.5),
IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("$500 pen",$B1)),($F1*485),
IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("$1000 pen",$B1)),($F1*970),0))))
Is there any way I can put another IF statement around this so, when the $C1 (sell price) is negative (<0), then *-1?
You might append:
*IF(C1>0,1,-1)
I have the following Excel code:
=IF(K4<=31/03/2014,TRUE,FALSE)
K4 contains a date:
01/01/2014
Yes, the code brings back FALSE, I have also tried =IF(K4<="31/03/2014",TRUE,FALSE) but with the same result.
Any ideas or suggestions as to where I am going wrong?
Use
=IF(K4<=DATE(2014,3,31),TRUE,FALSE)
You are testing an inequality with a Float <= String, which returns FALSE. The DATE(,,) fx gives you the required Float for equality comparison.
Alternatively, =K4<=DATE(2014,3,31) is a shorter way of achieving the same.
What K4<=31/03/2014 evaluates to is:
K4 <= (31/03)/2014
31/03 gives 10.333... and that divided by 2014 gives 0.005131... which is why it will always evaluate to false (01/01/2014 is equivalent to 41640, i.e. the number of days since '00/01/1900')
I don't know if it's a system thing, but =IF(K4<="31/03/2014",TRUE,FALSE) gives me TRUE, but then, so does =IF(K4<="31/03/2013",TRUE,FALSE).
A quick and dirty trick would be to multiply the string by 1:
=IF(K4<="31/03/2014"*1,TRUE,FALSE)
The multiplication tells excel to convert the string to a number, if it is parsable (You can also use any other numerical operation that doesn't change the value itself, such as +0).
Note: Excel dates and numbers are the same. Dates are just formatted differently so that a number with a specific format can appear as a date, time, or any other format you can have.
Also, if you really are using this IF construct, you are better of simply using the comparator:
=K4<="31/03/2014"*1
I had the same problem and found that excel was not recognizing one of my 2 columns as a date. (Try changing the date format to 14-Mar-12 to see if this is the case for you)