Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

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 -- ...

Q. Part of my job involves keeping track of all the departments’ budget status, which takes several hours each month. Is there a quicker way to do this? A. The task alluded to in the question involves ...

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...

As an Excel pro, I could use the old Excel 2003 menus with my eyes closed. I knew where commands were located. I knew the Alt shortcut keys for the commands that I used frequently. Alt+E+S+V was Edit, ...

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