The IF function is one of the most heavily used functions in Excel. IF is a simple function, and people love IF because it gives them the power to make Excel respond as information is entered in a spreadsheet. With IF, you can bring your spreadsheet to life.
But one IF often leads to another, and once you combine more than a couple IFs, your formulas can start to look like little Frankensteins :)
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Are nested IFs evil? Are they sometimes necessary? What are the alternatives?
Read on to learn the answers to these questions and more...
1. Basic IF
Before we talk about nested IF, let's quickly review the basic IF structure:
The IF function runs a test and performs different actions depending on whether the result is true or false.
Note the square brackets...these mean the arguments are optional. However, you must supply either a value for true, or a value for false.
To illustrate, here we use IF to check scores and calculate 'Pass' for scores of at least 65:
Cell D3 in the example contains this formula:
Which can be read like this: if the score in C3 is at least 65, return 'Pass'.
Note however that if the score is less than 65, IF returns FALSE, since we didn't supply a value if false. To display 'Fail' for non-passing scores, we can add 'Fail' as the false argument like so:
Video: How to build logical formulas.
2. What nesting means
Nesting simply means to combine formulas, one inside the other, so that one formula handles the result of another. For example, here's a formula where the TODAY function is nested inside the MONTH function:
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