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So, I am trying to get this formula to work.

The situation is that one of our items have changed names.  In the spreadsheet, I am trying to get a formula to automatically change the name to the correct one.  This is what I have so far.

=IF(AN1="X",IF(D1>=1/1/2013,"Y","X"),AN26)

AN= the column that has the product name as it would be able to be purchased now, even if it was purchased under a different name.
D= the date the item was purchased.
1/1/2013 is the date the current name was first started to be used in our system.
X is the current name
Y is the old name

My problem is that with the above formula, everything still comes as the old item name "Y" - so what am I doing wrong?

ac3mark · Answer

good afternoon,

Take a look at your logic, a nested if is still an if. so your logic is written:

=if(logic,true=if(logic,true,false),false)

so, your second logic statement says:
if date is greater than or equal to 1/1/2013 then "Y".

So that is why you are still getting "Y".

Reverse the Y and X in the second statement.

AY44 · Answer

So, I did as you suggested, changed the formula to:

=IF(AN1="X",IF(D1>=1/1/2013,"X","Y"),AN26) 

And instead of getting all of the X's to become Y's, now everything is X.  The formula seems to not be looking at the date that is in D1.

Any other help with this one?

ac3mark · Answer

=IF(A1="X",IF(D1>=DATE(2013,1,1),"X","Y"),AN26)

put the date in there

AY44 · Answer

Now it works!  Thank you SOOO MUCH!

Need help with an IF function

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