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I've done a few months roughly touching in and out of Excel. I know my way around the basics and can build some functions, but I'm currently having trouble with a multiple IF.
I can see nothing wrong with the function itself but it keeps returning the result #NAME?.
I'm pretty sure there is an easier way to achieve what I'm hoping for, but I really haven't got the experience.
I've pasted the formula below. Thank you so much in advance for any help you can provide.
Answer You're getting #NAME? because if A8 were Monday, for example, your formula would return the name Tuesday, not the text "Tuesday". You could change it to be
=IF(A8="Monday","Tuesday",IF(A8="Tuesday","Wednesday",IF(A8="Wednesday","Thursday",IF(A8="Thursday","Friday",IF(A8="Friday","Saturday",IF(A8="Saturday","Sunday",IF(A8="Sunday","Monday","Seek Help")))))))
or (assuming A8 really contains text, not a date FORMATTED as the day of a week):
Enter this formula by first holding ctrl+shift, then enter:
=INDEX(TEXT(ROW(2:8),"dddd"),MATCH(A8,TEXT(ROW(1:7),"dddd"),0))
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