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.

Excel is many things: powerful, useful, colorful, handy, but its logic functions can be challenging to newcomers due to their implied logic, and a shorthand syntax designed to fit on a single line in ...

To make this spreadsheet work, we manipulate the Year and Month functions into an IF statement (see Table 1). The raw format of each function is: Year(serial_number). This returns the year when the ...