Tip #5
An IF formula is one of the most useful terms in Excel. It’s a conditional formula that allows you to calculate one way if something is true and another if something is false.
=IF(condition,
The condition is the value that you want to test. The value_if_true is the value that will be returned if the condition is TRUE. The value_if_false is the value that will be returned if the condition is FALSE.
For example:
If we assume those are student’s grades on a paper and we want to know which students have passed and which have failed without having to go line by line, we would use this formula and copy down:
=IF(A1>=60, “PASS”, “FAIL”)
That is to say, if the value in cell A1 is greater than or equal to 60, then return “Pass”, if not then return “Fail”
For more advanced conditional statements, you can nest multiple IF Formulas or use IFERROR to determine what you want Excel to return in the event that it evaluates to an error!
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