Yes, that would work just as well - both a1 and b1 cannot be positive and
meet the first condition - and if both of them are negative you will still
get zero as an answer


"Sandy Mann" wrote:

Just another option,

=((A1+B1)<0)*MAX(A1,B1,0)
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HTH

Sandy
Retired for Work
But hopefully not from Life


with @tiscali.co.uk


"profmorse" wrote in message
...
how can I build an If statement that answers the following; If A+B<0 then
chose A only if A is greater than 0, otherwise chose B, only if B is
greater
than zero, otherwise 0.