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I have been trying to figure this out for a good while, but just cant get it. I have no idea what I've done wrong in this formula.

I think that it is a nested IF formula but it still says entered too many arguments for this function.

=IF(C12={0,1,2,3,4,5},"0","", IF(C12={6,7,8},"25","", IF(C12={9,10},"30","", IF(C12>10,"35",""))))

Can someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong here?

Edit: Thanks to @timotree my original problem is solved. But now a new one has arose, now that the cells are correctly showing what i want them to automatically it seems i cannot sum them together. For example this formula is used in cells E12-E21, i want to total these cells in E22. But as it is now i am only getting 0 even if cells E12-E21 are populated with values from 25-35.

Edit 2: 2nd problem solved again by @timotree, thanks to everyone else for helping as well.

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  • For the future, this probably should've gone on Stack Overflow. – timotree Dec 4 '16 at 23:12
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    @timotree No, it shouldn't. Formula questions are a perfect fit for SuperUser, too. – teylyn Dec 4 '16 at 23:18
  • @teylin Oh okay. Thanks for reminding me. – timotree Dec 4 '16 at 23:20
  • @timotree Also, at-mentioning only works if you spell the name correctly..... there is a pop up that helps you do that. – teylyn Dec 4 '16 at 23:34
  • @teylyn I know how to use the site. I appreciate your advice but you could be a little less condescending about my typo. :-P – timotree Dec 4 '16 at 23:51
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Examples

Actual IF syntax

=IF(logical_expression, value_if_true, value_if_false)

source

The way you used it was

=IF(C12={0,1,2,3,4,5},"0","", IF(C12={6,7,8},"25","", IF(C12={9,10},"30","", IF(C12>10,"35",""))))
              PROBLEM IS HERE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This translates to

=IF(logical_expression, value_if_true, value_if_false, another_if_statement)
                                     PROBLEM IS HERE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think what you meant to do was

=IF(C12={0,1,2,3,4,5},"0", IF(C12={6,7,8},"25", IF(C12={9,10},"30", IF(C12>10,"35",""))))

Explanation

The change I made is that I removed the ,"" from every IF except for the last one.

This works because each of the nested IFs only evaluate when logical_expression is false otherwise it will just return the value associated with that if.

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  • If you have any feedback please let me know before downvoting! – timotree Dec 4 '16 at 23:00
  • Thank you very much, that solved it. Do you know of any way that i can now use these true values (0, 25, 30, 35) to autosum a total? Because as of now they just autosum to 0. (using this formula for multiple rows) – tony gouveia Dec 4 '16 at 23:09
  • @tonygouveia What do you mean by autosum? – timotree Dec 4 '16 at 23:11
  • I am using this formula on multiple rows and want to total them automatically (35+25+30=90 for example) but as it is now my autosum =SUM(E12:E21) totals to 0 only – tony gouveia Dec 4 '16 at 23:15
  • @tonygouveia You want to sum a line of cells together? – timotree Dec 4 '16 at 23:17
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AutoSum or SUM will not work on anything but numbers. Your formula result is not a "number"

SUM Syntax

Use the VALUE Function to convert your formula result to a number that you can then AutoSum.

Example illustrating IF formulas WITH the VALUE function which returns the SUM you require.

VALUE Function

Description

Converts a text string that represents a number to a number.

Syntax

VALUE(text)

The VALUE function syntax has the following arguments:

Text    Required. The text enclosed in quotation marks or a reference to a cell containing the text you want to convert.
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