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Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)
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Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

by Paul McFedries
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
13h 57m
English
Microsoft Press
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CHAPTER 6

Working with logical and information functions

In this chapter, you will:

  • Add logical tests to your formulas with the IF function

  • Perform multiple logical tests with nested IF functions and the AND and OR functions

  • Create powerful formulas that combine logical tests with arrays

  • Interrogate Excel using the information functions

  • Count blanks, errors, and similar values with Excel’s IS functions

In Chapter 4, “Understanding functions,” I mentioned that one of the advantages of using Excel’s worksheet functions is that they enable you to build formulas that perform actions that are simply not possible with the standard operators and operands.

This idea becomes readily apparent when you learn about functions that can add intelligence ...

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