If(AND with multiply

[tiredofit]

I am familiar with this type of IF(AND

=IF(AND(G11=10,H11=20),"Yes","No")

Can someone please explain what this is doing?

=IF(AND(A1="a")*(B1=10)*(C1=30),D1,E50)

What is the significance of the multiply?

Thanks

 

[Joe4]

You can use multiply instead of AND to do the same thing as AND. It makes use of the fact that TRUE=1 and FALSE=0. So, 1*1*1=1, which is TRUE.
Anything else would be multiplied by 0, which would return 0 (or FALSE).

However, that second one is constructed incorrectly (or at least inefficiently). There is no point in using AND with just one condition.
If you wanted to do it with multiply instead of AND, it should look like:

=IF((A1="a")*(B1=10)*(C1=30),D1,E50)

which would give you the same result as:

=IF(AND(A1="a",B1=10,C1=30),D1,E50)

So AND and multiple are really just two ways of doing the same thing.

 

[tiredofit]

Thanks.

I was aware of the significance of the * in a SUMRODUCT formula but not in IF(AND

 

[Joe4]

It essentially works the same way.
Just realize that TRUE=1 and FALSE=0.

So
(A1="a")*(B1=10)*(C1=30)
is the same as:
AND(A1="a",B1=10,C1=30)

Which one you use is a matter of preference.