I am using Excel 2000. Is there a way around the 7 limit on a nested IF?

Thanks

The limit is hard-coded and cannot be changed (still there in 2003).
Often people can restructure what they are trying to do to use a lookup
table.

Jerry

SOT wrote:

I am using Excel 2000. Is there a way around the 7 limit on a nested IF?

Thanks

It's good practice to re-configure your formulas, to perhaps a datalist,
which can be accessed by Lookup functions, if you have that amount of
variables.

However, there are workarounds.

Check out this web page of Chip Pearson:

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/nested.htm

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"SOT" wrote in message
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I am using Excel 2000. Is there a way around the 7 limit on a nested IF?

Thanks

I often use CHOOSE:

Example 1:
IF A4 = 1 Then 11
Else If A4 = 2 Then 22
Else If A4 = 3 Then 33
Else If A4 = 4 Then 44
=CHOOSE(A4,11,22,33,44)

Example 2:
IF AND(A4 = 1, A4 < 10) Then "1-9"
Else If AND(A4 = 10, A4 < 20) Then "10-19"
Else...
=CHOOSE(1 + A4 = 1 + A4 = 10 + A4 = 20), "Error", "1-9", "10-19", "20")


Ola Sandstrom