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Excel - If/Then Statement Help

Expert: Richard Rost - 7/8/2009

Question
I am trying to write an if then statement. I would appreciate any of your help, thanks in advance. Let me first try to explain to you what I am doing.

There are 16 teams, and I am trying to have excel automatically calculate the points based off of where they finish. Take team one for instance, if "Team 1" is in cell A1 but not in B1 = 3 points, but if "Team 1" is in cell A1 and B1 = 6 points, and but if "Team 1" is in cell A1 and B1 and C1 = 9 points. And so on... I appreciate hearing your opinion on the best way to do this

Answer
Depending on how many conditions you're talking about (there is a limit) then this would just be a complex IF statement:

=IF(AND(A1="Team 1",B1<>"Team 1"),3,IF(AND(A1="Team 1",B1="Team 1",6,IF(AND(A1="Team 1",B1="Team 1",C1="Team 1",9,0)))

You can use the IF function to have Excel place a value in a cell based on one or more conditions or values in other cells.

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http://www.599cd.com/tips/excel/misc/if-function-sales-tax.asp?key=AllExperts

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