Which formula to use if I need more than 7 arguments IF

[rdvn915]

Hello guys,

I have a cell in main Sheet in which I want a value from another cell from different Sheet. Because I can't use more than 7 IF in formula, I'm lost how to solve this issue.

If cell T22 from Sheet2 contains some value, use this value, but if is empty, use value of T21 from Sheet2,
if cell T21 from Sheet2 contains some value, use this value, but if is empty, use value of T20 from Sheet2,
if cell T20 from Sheet2 contains some value, use this value, but if is empty, use value of T19 from Sheet2,
etc. up to T1.

But it goes on, so if cell T1 from Sheet2 contains some value, use this value, but if is empty, use value of cell T20 from Sheet1.

To give you an idea of exactly what I mean, this is what the formula might look like if there could be more than 7 IF arguments.

Thank you in advance for your help.

=
IF(Sheet2!T22="",Sheet2!T21,Sheet2!T22),
IF(Sheet2!T21="",Sheet2!T20,Sheet2!T21),
IF(Sheet2!T20="",Sheet2!T19,Sheet2!T20),
IF(Sheet2!T19="",Sheet2!T18,Sheet2!T19),
IF(Sheet2!T18="",Sheet2!T17,Sheet2!T18),
IF(Sheet2!T17="",Sheet2!T16,Sheet2!T17),
IF(Sheet2!T16="",Sheet2!T15,Sheet2!T16),
IF(Sheet2!T15="",Sheet2!T14,Sheet2!T15),
IF(Sheet2!T14="",Sheet2!T13,Sheet2!T14),
IF(Sheet2!T13="",Sheet2!T12,Sheet2!T13),
IF(Sheet2!T12="",Sheet2!T11,Sheet2!T12),
IF(Sheet2!T11="",Sheet2!T10,Sheet2!T11),
IF(Sheet2!T10="",Sheet2!T9,Sheet2!T10),
IF(Sheet2!T9="",Sheet2!T8,Sheet2!T9),
IF(Sheet2!T8="",Sheet2!T7,Sheet2!T8),
IF(Sheet2!T7="",Sheet2!T6,Sheet2!T7),
IF(Sheet2!T6="",Sheet2!T5,Sheet2!T6),
IF(Sheet2!T5="",Sheet2!T4,Sheet2!T5,
IF(Sheet2!T4="",Sheet2!T3,Sheet2!T4),
IF(Sheet2!T3="",Sheet2!T2,Sheet2!T3),
IF(Sheet2!T2="",Sheet2!T1,Sheet2!T2),
IF(Sheet2!T1="",Sheet1!T20,Sheet2!T1))))))))))))))))))))))

 

[Fluff]

Hi & welcome to MrExcel.
You can use 64 levels of nesting, not 7.
That said do those cells contain a formula? If so what is it?

 

[rdvn915]

Hello, thank you for the welcome.

There is no formula in those cells, those cells contains manually added values (numbers) - specifically closing price of stock.
I have a sheet for each month of the year in which there are closing price of stock for each day of the month.
And I want the closing price from the current day to be shown in a cell in the main sheet.
I manually write down these prices, which I don't mind, but I would like the current price to always be shown in the main sheet.

So basically, if I didn't enter today's price, I want yesterday's price to be shown in the cell.

 

[Peter_SSs]

Try

=LOOKUP(9^9,Sheet2!T1:T22)

 

[rdvn915]

Thank you! This is working well. I will just simply edit sheet name to show data from the current month.

 

[Peter_SSs]

You're welcome. Thanks for the follow-up.