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Kerry has attended:
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IF Statement

If: How to check why a formula isn't working

RE: IF Statement

Hi Kerry

Thank you for your question.

Normally you will need to look at the function and troubleshoot this yourself. Common mistakes are:

- missing brackets, or not including enough brackets if you are creating a nested if funtion

- if you are using numbers as part of any of the arguments of the function, including commas within the numbers (e.g. 1,000 instead of 1000) will confuse Excel as it will think where the comma is within the number is where you have ended that particular argument

- not including a 'value if false' argument as the final argument in a nested if function.

- putting in the wrong symbol, e.g using > as less than rather than greater than.

I hope this helps.

Amanda

Excel tip:

Use the Format Painter to copy formatting more than once in Excel

The format painter tool provides a quick and easy way to copy formatting from one cell to another in Word.

The only problem is that if you click the Format Painter once to turn it on, you can only click and drag over a single cell or adjacent range of cells; then the Format Painter turns itself off automatically.

If you want to copy formatting to cells or groups of cells that are not adjacent to each other, double-click the Format Painter - this way you will be able to copy formatting to multiple cells.

When you have finished using Format Painter, press the Esc key or click on the Format Painter button once to turn it off.

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