Re: Working with formulas

[Hal Ashburner <hal ashburner gmail com>]

On 16/12/2009 12:41 PM, parjo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've only using GnuMeric for 3 months, and came to an obstacle. I don't know
> how to formulate this in GnuMeric:
>
> if (j1=4 or j1=3 or j1=2)
>         then k=1000
> elseif (j1=1)
>         then k=500
> else
>         k=0
>
> Would someone enlightenment with this problem?
>    
=IF(OR(J1=4, j1=3, j1=2),1000,IF(j1=1,500,0))
will evaluate that cell as k according to your rules above.
Generally it's not a bad idea to break these down into multiple cells to 
make them easier to read.