Using IF with AND,

OR, and NOT

functions in Excel
Applies To

In Excel, the IF function allows you to make a logical

comparison between a value and what you expect by
testing for a condition and returning a result if that
condition is True or False.

 =IF(Something is True, then do something,

otherwise do something else)

But what if you need to test multiple conditions,

where let’s say all conditions need to be True or False
(AND), or only one condition needs to be True or
False (OR), or if you want to check if a condition
does NOT meet your criteria? All 3 functions can be
used on their own, but it’s much more common to
see them paired with IF functions.
Technical Details
Here are overviews of how to
structure AND, OR and NOT functions individually.
When you combine each one of them with an IF
statement, they read like this:

 AND – =IF(AND(Something is True, Something

else is True), Value if True, Value if False)
 OR – =IF(OR(Something is True, Something else is
True), Value if True, Value if False)
 NOT – =IF(NOT(Something is True), Value if True,
Value if False)

Examples
Following are examples of some common nested
IF(AND()), IF(OR()) and IF(NOT()) statements in Excel.
The AND and OR functions can support up to 255
individual conditions, but it’s not good practice to
use more than a few because complex, nested
formulas can get very difficult to build, test and
maintain. The NOT function only takes one condition.
Here are the formulas spelled out according to their
logic:

Formula Descriptio
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=IF(AND(A2>0,B2<100),TRUE, FALSE) IF A2 (25)
is greater
than 0,
AND B2
(75) is less
than 100,
then
return
TRUE,
otherwise
return
FALSE. In
this case
both
conditions
are true,
so TRUE is
returned.
=IF(AND(A3="Red",B3="Green"),TRUE,F If A3
ALSE) (“Blue”) =
“Red”,
AND B3
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(“Green”)
equals
“Green”
then
return
TRUE,
otherwise
return
FALSE. In
this case
only the
first
condition
is true, so
FALSE is
returned.
=IF(OR(A4>0,B4<50),TRUE, FALSE) IF A4 (25)
is greater
than 0, OR
B4 (75) is
less than
50, then
return
TRUE,
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otherwise
return
FALSE. In
this case,
only the
first
condition
is TRUE,
but since
OR only
requires
one
argument
to be true
the
formula
returns
TRUE.
=IF(OR(A5="Red",B5="Green"),TRUE,FAL IF A5
SE) (“Blue”)
equals
“Red”, OR
B5
(“Green”)
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equals
“Green”
then
return
TRUE,
otherwise
return
FALSE. In
this case,
the
second
argument
is True, so
the
formula
returns
TRUE.
=IF(NOT(A6>50),TRUE,FALSE) IF A6 (25)
is NOT
greater
than 50,
then
return
TRUE,
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otherwise
return
FALSE. In
this case
25 is not
greater
than 50,
so the
formula
returns
TRUE.