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Default Help with 'If' function

You're welcome - thanks for feeding back.

Pete

On May 5, 3:17*am, TBA wrote:
thanks Pete-0 alot more straight forward than I feared! works a treat, here's
to GMT- saves me every time...



"Pete_UK" wrote:
I would suggest that you build up a 2-column table somewhere showing
all those combinations in one column and the desired outcome in the
other column like this:


N/CN/C * * * * * * *Yes
N/CStart * * * * * *Yes
N/CStop * * * * * * No
N/CInc * * * * * * * *Yes
N/CDec * * * * * * * Yes
N/CBLANK * * * * Yes
N/CC/R * * * * * * * Yes
BLANKBLANK * *No
StartN/C * * * * * * *No
StartStop * * * * * * No
StopN/C * * * * * * *Yes
IncN/C * * * * * * * * Yes
IncDec * * * * * * * * Yes


Suppose this is in X1:Y13.


Then you can just use this formula on row 2:


=VLOOKUP(I2&K2,X$1:Y$13,2,0)


and copy down as required.


Hope this helps.


Pete


On May 5, 12:48 am, TBA wrote:
Hi there all, sorry I just can’t get my head around nested ifs??
I have two columns I and K and the following criteria with desired return
for the formula:
I and K can be one of these values “N/C”, “Start”, “Stop”, “Inc”, “Dec”,
“BLANK”, “C/R”
Depending on the combination of I and K, I want to return either “Yes” or
‘No”. *
Here are the I and K = outcome options:
N/C and N/C = Yes
N/C and Start= Yes
N/C and Stop = No
N/C and Inc = Yes
N/C and Dec = Yes
N/C and BLANK= Yes
N/C and C/R = Yes
BLANK and BLANK = No
Start and N/C= No
Start and Stop = No
Stop and N/C= Yes
Inc and N/C=Yes
Inc and Dec= Yes


There are more!


Can i combine all of the ‘Yes’ options? What’s the best or easiest way to
deal with this? *Many thanks *Theo.- Hide quoted text -


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