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thomasea
Copper Contributor
Mar 20, 2019

IF FUNCTION ISN'T WORKING NO MATTER HOW SIMPLE THE COMMAND IS

Hi, I was trying to use the IF function and it wasn't working so i tried to make it as simple as possible to see what the problem was. Still, it gave me an error even though I just copied and pasted the formula from windows support page so I don't really know what to do.

  • Perhaps your list separator is not comma (e.g. semicolon). You may check Win+R type control international and here is under Additional settings

  • Perhaps your list separator is not comma (e.g. semicolon). You may check Win+R type control international and here is under Additional settings

    • thomasea's avatar
      thomasea
      Copper Contributor

       


      SergeiBaklan wrote:

      Perhaps your list separator is not comma (e.g. semicolon). You may check Win+R type control international and here is under Additional settings



      thanks a lot it really worked SergeiBaklan 

    • JakobNilssonTVV's avatar
      JakobNilssonTVV
      Copper Contributor

      I have changed this setting to comma ( , ) for list separator, restarted PC, and closed/reopened Excel and still same error as thomasea. Everything written manually from scratch by myself.

  • Twifoo's avatar
    Twifoo
    Silver Contributor
    Try to type the formula rather than copy and paste it.
    • Shawn Keene's avatar
      Shawn Keene
      Brass Contributor

      Twifoo I believe this is the issue as well. Those quote marks look like smart quotes (curved quote marks) rather than proper actual quotation marks, which will break formulas in Excel (or nearly any programming language).

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