Alternatives to Nested If Function

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12 points by andsoitis4 days ago

3 comments

pavel_lishin56 minutes ago
There was an excellent excel video by ... someone famous in our field whose name escapes me, and one thing I internalized from that was that VLOOKUP is always a bad choice, and INDEX + MATCH is almost always what you want instead.About once a year I go looking for that video, and about half the time, I find it, and half the time I don't. I should really bookmark it.
- imurray49 minutes ago
 I think you're thinking of "You Suck at Excel" by Joel Spolsky. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBg4sMusIg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBg4sMusIg</a>Lots of past HN discussion... <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=you+suck+at+excel" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=you+suck+at+excel</a>That video was before the introduction of xlookup, which I believe is now worth considering over index and match.
 - pavel_lishin45 minutes ago
 Yes! Thank you!
abstractspoon4 days ago
In Excel
- jonasenordin44 minutes ago
 Important_Distinction. _That_Should_Be_in_the_Headline_Maybe.Thanks, saving a click, not going for the article; not that it's necessarily bad or uninteresting; not that I wouldn't if I had more time on this planet.
 - jonasenordin22 minutes ago
 Went ahead and clicked anyway, scientifically-minded that I am. No appreciable disillusionment occurred.Didn't Excel gain the ability to use names at some point?Is 'anominal' a word? As in 'anominal' or 'non-nominal' programming, or 'un-' or 'dis-'. Maybe Excel rises to 'pseudonominal'.--- quote ---Most users would use below nested IF function=IF(B2=$F$3,$G$3,IF(B2=$F$4,$G$4,IF(B2=$F$5,$G$5,IF(B2=$F$6,$G$6,IF(B2=$F$7,$G$7,IF(B2=$F$8,$G$8))))))
esafak37 minutes ago
A benighted programming language if I ever saw one. I don't use Excel so maybe someone call tell me why people don't just migrate their queries to Python: <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Excel/python/get-started-with-python-in-excel" rel="nofollow">https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Excel/python/get-started...</a>Is support poor? Competitors can do it: <a href="https://www.quadratichq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.quadratichq.com/</a> (look at their VLOOKUP example)