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I stopped overusing IF in Excel—and my formulas instantly became cleaner and faster

Modern Excel functions like IFS, SWITCH, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and LET replace most nested IF use cases.
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Ranking Sales with Power Query Conditional Columns: How I Stopped Using 7-Level Nested IFs and Reduced Classification Errors from 15 to 0 per Month

The Friday night I realized, "I can't even read my own IF formulas anymore." Let me start with the conclusion: if you are using nested IF functions to categorize sales data into ranks like S, A, B, or ...
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The Excel formulas AI creates: Are you doing the '30-second check' before pasting?

I will be honest. I have seen many comments like this online. "I pasted the formula ChatGPT made for me into my actual sheet, and it gave me an error," or "The numbers appear, but for some reason, the ...