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Chapter 8

Creating Tables

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Logical functions determine whether a particular condition is TRUE or FALSE.

This function

Returns

Examples

Notes

AND(x

1

...)

TRUE if all the
arguments are TRUE,
otherwise returns
FALSE

AND(TRUE, TRUE)
returns TRUE
AND(TRUE, FALSE)
returns FALSE
AND(TRUE, 0) returns
FALSE

See note at end of
table.

ISERROR(x)

TRUE if x is erroneous,
otherwise returns
FALSE

ISERROR(1/0) returns
TRUE

NOT(x)

TRUE if x is FALSE
FALSE if x is TRUE

NOT(TRUE) returns
FALSE
NOT(FALSE) returns
TRUE

Interprets 0 as FALSE
and all other numbers
as TRUE

OR(x

1

...)

TRUE if any argument
is TRUE, otherwise
returns FALSE

OR(TRUE, FALSE)
returns TRUE
OR(FALSE) returns
FALSE

See note at end of
table.

Notes:
 If an argument of AND or OR is a reference to a cell that doesn’t contain

TRUE or FALSE, the argument is ignored. When you type arguments, rather
than referring to cells for values, zero is interpreted as FALSE, any other number
is interpreted as TRUE, and text strings result in an error.

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