Hi all,

Can someone please help me with a problem I'm having using an IF statement
that refers to cells that may have a null value.

I've created a sheet for recording student exam results. Column D shows how
many major errors have been made, Column E shows how many minor errors have
been made, Column F gives a P or F depending on the amount of errors made; 0
major and 4 or less minor are a pass, 1 major or 5 or more minor are a fail.
The formula looks like this;

=IF(D3=1,"F",IF(E34,"F","P"))

and works fine.

However if columns D and E are empty, then I don't want anything displayed in
column F, at the moment all cells in column F are displaying a P. I think
that it may involve more nested IFs for the formula but I seem to be going
around in circles.

Hope someone can help sort this for me,

Thanks,
Tazzy

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=IF(OR(ISBLANK(D3),ISBLANK(E3)),"",IF(D3=1,"F",IF (E34,"F","P")))

Regards,
Stefi


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Hi all,

Can someone please help me with a problem I'm having using an IF statement
that refers to cells that may have a null value.

I've created a sheet for recording student exam results. Column D shows how
many major errors have been made, Column E shows how many minor errors have
been made, Column F gives a P or F depending on the amount of errors made; 0
major and 4 or less minor are a pass, 1 major or 5 or more minor are a fail.
The formula looks like this;

=IF(D3=1,"F",IF(E34,"F","P"))

and works fine.

However if columns D and E are empty, then I don't want anything displayed in
column F, at the moment all cells in column F are displaying a P. I think
that it may involve more nested IFs for the formula but I seem to be going
around in circles.

Hope someone can help sort this for me,

Thanks,
Tazzy

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=IF(AND(D3="",E3=""),"",IF(D3=1,"F",IF(E34,"F"," P")))

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HTH

Bob


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Hi all,

Can someone please help me with a problem I'm having using an IF statement
that refers to cells that may have a null value.

I've created a sheet for recording student exam results. Column D shows
how
many major errors have been made, Column E shows how many minor errors
have
been made, Column F gives a P or F depending on the amount of errors made;
0
major and 4 or less minor are a pass, 1 major or 5 or more minor are a
fail.
The formula looks like this;

=IF(D3=1,"F",IF(E34,"F","P"))

and works fine.

However if columns D and E are empty, then I don't want anything displayed
in
column F, at the moment all cells in column F are displaying a P. I think
that it may involve more nested IFs for the formula but I seem to be going
around in circles.

Hope someone can help sort this for me,

Thanks,
Tazzy

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Or another way...

=IF(D3="","",IF(E3="","",IF(D3=1,"F",IF(E34,"F", "P"))))

Hope this helps,

Gav.

"Tazzy via OfficeKB.com" wrote:

Hi all,

Can someone please help me with a problem I'm having using an IF statement
that refers to cells that may have a null value.

I've created a sheet for recording student exam results. Column D shows how
many major errors have been made, Column E shows how many minor errors have
been made, Column F gives a P or F depending on the amount of errors made; 0
major and 4 or less minor are a pass, 1 major or 5 or more minor are a fail.
The formula looks like this;

=IF(D3=1,"F",IF(E34,"F","P"))

and works fine.

However if columns D and E are empty, then I don't want anything displayed in
column F, at the moment all cells in column F are displaying a P. I think
that it may involve more nested IFs for the formula but I seem to be going
around in circles.

Hope someone can help sort this for me,

Thanks,
Tazzy

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Bob/Stefi,

Thank you both for such a quick answer, have saved both of your formulae in
my ever growing list. Spreadsheet now looks the way I want it to.

Kind Reagrds,
Tazzy

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Thanks to you as well Gav,
Tazzy

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You are welcome! Thanks for the feedback!
Stefi

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Bob/Stefi,

Thank you both for such a quick answer, have saved both of your formulae in
my ever growing list. Spreadsheet now looks the way I want it to.

Kind Reagrds,
Tazzy

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