In this example, we are going to use a table containing the test marks of students. We want to use the IF statement to determine who passes and who fails. We will click the cell where we want the ...

Imagine this: you’re managing a sprawling Excel spreadsheet with thousands of rows of data. You need to identify high-priority tasks, flag anomalies, or categorize entries based on specific rules.

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.

Microsoft Office has a number of comparison operations so you can check if a value is greater than, equal to or less than another value using the standard greater than, less than and equal symbols.

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I traded the static results of Flash Fill for dynamic formulas that update automatically.