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    How to Incorporate another Element in current formula to Populate Text in another cell

    Hi, currently have a formula that based on cells which have dates entered in them, will automatically populate text in a different cell to indicate status of employee hiring actions. The cell that gets populated with "Active" and "Complete" is AA4. The current formula is:

    =IF(AND(ISNUMBER(M4),X4=""),"Active",IF(AND(ISNUMBER(M4),ISNUMBER(X4)),"Complete",IF(AND(M4="",X4=""),"","")))

    It works perfectly - i now need to add another element to this. I had to add a data validation dropwdown list in Y4 - if the user makes a choice in that column which populates text, and M4 has a date entered, how do i incorporate that into the above so should that occur, AA4 will populate with "Inactive"? I've tried everything I know of to no avail. I'm sure it is simple, but I can't get anything to work. Thanks - Chris

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    Re: How to Incorporate another Element in current formula to Populate Text in another cell

    Hi, for some reason, it won't work, but the formula makes perfect sense. I'm not getting an error message or anything. The spreadsheet is not locked or anything which I thought could be causing the issue. The only thing I saw was in your formula, after the TEXT entry, X4 was referenced as the ISNUMBER, whereas it should have been M4. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!

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