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 has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

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.