how many if statements can you have in one formula?

I have nine conditions I want the IF statement to recognize, but when I enter
the formula I get an error after the 8th condition.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can only use 7 nested IF. There are other options, like CHOOSE, VLOOKUP
or MATCH/INDEX that may fit in your particular case, check the help for those
functions as that may give you ideas.

Hope this helps,
Miguel.

"bvehslage" wrote:

> I have nine conditions I want the IF statement to recognize, but when I enter
> the formula I get an error after the 8th condition.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can actually have quite a few. While you can only have 7 nested if
statements, you can format you equation to unnest the ifs in most occurances
for example
=if(a1>2,5,if(a1>0,3,1) has two levels of ifs

while
=if(a1>2,5,0)+if(and(A1>0,A1<=2),3,0) and if(A1<=0,1,0)
will give the same answer with one level of if staements.

There are multiple other equations which will give the same answer, but will
not be hit by the 7 nested limit.

"bvehslage" wrote:

> I have nine conditions I want the IF statement to recognize, but when I enter
> the formula I get an error after the 8th condition.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.