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 ...

The IF statement returns a value based on TRUE/FALSE evaluation and you can nest IF statements inside another statement to create complex logic. The SWITCH statement evaluates an expression and tests ...

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 -- ...