I give up

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Oldjay

I have the following formula in a cell

=IF(ID606="Y",C254,IF(ID606="N",C248,IF($C$256>$C$250,
$C$255,$C$249)))

Cell ID606 is blank

When I look at the function arguments it says both ID606='Y' and ID606="N"
are true.
What going on?

oldjay
 
B

Bernard Liengme

Please clarify: "When I look at the function arguments it says both
ID606='Y' and ID606="N"
are true"
best wishes
 
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Rick Rothstein

You don't tell us what is actually happening that you think is not right nor
have you told us what you think should have happened, so it is kind of hard
to answer your question. However, based on how your formula is set up, this
part of the formula will execute if ID606=""...

IF($C$256>$C$250,$C$255,$C$249)

So either the contents of C255 or C249 will be displayed depending on the
relationship between C256 and C250.
 
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Mike H

Hi,

Whats' going on? It's a nested if statement that says

=IF(ID606="Y",C254,IF(ID606="N",C248,IF($C$256>$C$250,$C$255,$C$249)))

IF ID606 = Y then return the contents of C254
If that evaluates as TRUE then that's the end of the matter but if ID606
isn't Y it carries on

IF ID606 = N then return C248
Once again if that's true then the formula stops but if ID606 is neuther Y
or N then it carries on and asks

If C256 is greater than C250 return C255 and if that's not true return the
contents of C249.

Mike
 
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FSt1

hi
no it doesn't. the formula reads like this.......
if id606 = "y" then return C254's value and stop there. however if ID606
does not ="Y" but = "N" then return C248's value and stop there. however if
ID606 does not contain "Y" or "N" then look at C256 and check to see if it's
greater than C250 and if it is, return c255's value but it its not then
return c249's value.

simple. or did i misunderstand you question.
regards
FSt1
 
T

T. Valko

The cell returns the value in C254

If that's the result of the formula then ID606 does =Y. If you say ID606 is
blank then there might be conditional formatting suppressing the display of
the Y.

Try this formula in some empty cell:

=ID606=""

What result do you get?
 
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Dave Peterson

Just to add to Biff's suggestion...

It could be caused by other formatting, too.

I'd try clearing the formats.

In xl2003 menus:
Select the cell
edit|clear|formats
 
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Oldjay

I had already reformated the cell to General. That didn't help.

In answer to Biff's request. it returns a 0
 
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Dave Peterson

You have a lotus 123 transition setting checked.

In xl2003 menus:
tools|Options|transition tab
Uncheck all those settings.
 
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Oldjay

Thanks - That did the trick. "Transition formula evaluation" was checked

A couple of questions. I installed XL2003 on this computer as soon as I
bought it 18 months ago. I have written cell formulas with up to 5 If
statements many times in the past without this error showing up. Why now?

While waiting for your answer I flip flopped the first two IF statements
just to see what happened. This cleared up the error also. Why?
 
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Dave Peterson

I'm not sure how this setting can get changed without manual intervention. But
stranger things have happened...

Excel and Lotus treat empty cells differently. I have no idea why Lotus does it
this way.

All I know is that I turn all those transition settings off when I see them on
-- they can make debugging a worksheet very difficult.
Thanks - That did the trick. "Transition formula evaluation" was checked

A couple of questions. I installed XL2003 on this computer as soon as I
bought it 18 months ago. I have written cell formulas with up to 5 If
statements many times in the past without this error showing up. Why now?

While waiting for your answer I flip flopped the first two IF statements
just to see what happened. This cleared up the error also. Why?
Click to expand...
 
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Oldjay

Thanks so much!~! you guys do such a great job

Dave Peterson said:
I'm not sure how this setting can get changed without manual intervention. But
stranger things have happened...

Excel and Lotus treat empty cells differently. I have no idea why Lotus does it
this way.

All I know is that I turn all those transition settings off when I see them on
-- they can make debugging a worksheet very difficult.
Click to expand...
 
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