If then formula for dates with multiple criteria

Dawn McCallister

Sometimes what seems to be a simple formula, leaves me frustrated far too long. Here to humbling myself …

I have an audit field (date field), I am trying to build a formula that will return the results of the audit based on date. When building the COUNTIF formula using both a date column and several test columns, I am getting the #incorrect argument set" error. I suspect it is because of the column properties being different. So I created a helper column to convert the date to "Today", "Yesterday" or "Past".

Separately these formulas work -

=IF([AUDIT DATE]@row = TODAY(-1), "Yesterday", "Blank")

=IF([AUDIT DATE]@row = TODAY(), "Today", "Blank")

When I nest them together, I the results are #UNPARSEABLE

=IF(AUDIT DATE]@row = TODAY(), "Today", [AUDIT DATE]@row = TODAY(-1), "Yesterday", "Blank")

I know it has to be something simple but I can not figure it out.

Dawn

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️

Paul Newcome

You are missing the second IF( before the second argument.

But you may not need a separate helper column. I use COUNTIFS with different data types throughout regularly. The first step may be that you mentioned a COUNTIF with multiple range/criteria sets, but to be able to use multiple range/criteria sets, you need to use a COUNTIFS (with the "S" on the end). That would throw that particular error message.

Dawn McCallister

Paul

Thank you, missing the IF( before the second argument did the trick. But, I also want to work through my original formula and see if I can get it working eliminating the need for the helper column.

Thank you Again …

Dawn

Paul Newcome

Happy to help. 👍️