Microsoft Excel: IF Statement Basics & Formulas

This lesson is part of the following series:

Microsoft Access & Excel: Concept Video Series (14 lessons, $217.80)
Microsoft Excel: All Concept Videos Series (9 lessons, $148.50)
Microsoft Excel: IF, Nested IF, SUMIF & COUNTIF (4 lessons, $79.20)

This is the first video in a series that covers the nuts and bolts of IF statements, nested IF statements, and the conditional formulas in Microsoft Excel. This series is designed for students and coaches seeking to learn access to compete in the UIL High School Computer Applications contest but has proven to be useful for anyone seeking to learn or brush up on their Excel skills. In this lesson, we focus on the IF formula and construction of IF statements in Excel.

In this video, you'll learn:
- how the IF formula works
- how to think of the IF formula as a sentence in order to help with constructing accurate IF statements
- how to diagram an IF statement graphically, which will help you to conceptualize and understand how nested IF statements work, which we'll cover in latter videos
- what the parts are to an IF statement and how to think about these types of formulae and statements

To illustrate these things, we'll go through some examples in Microsoft Excel. Note that a starting point worksheet is attached as is the ending point worksheets (in the attached Excel workbook) in order to allow you to work off of the starting document and compare your results to the ending document.

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This video was recorded using Microsoft Excel 2010. There are very minor differences between Excel 2007 and 2010, but the content covered here is virtually the same across versions.

• Once you purchase this lesson you will have access to these files:
• Basic_IF_Statements.xlsx

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