AND / OR / NOT — Excel guide

Combine conditions: AND needs every test true, OR needs at least one. They feed IFs, conditional formatting rules, and (as arithmetic) array formulas.

AND

TRUE only when ALL arguments are true.

  • The between-check: AND(A1>=1, A1<=10). Excel has no 1<=A1<=10 chaining.
  • AND evaluates every argument — it won't short-circuit past a division by zero.

OR

TRUE when AT LEAST ONE argument is true.

  • There's no infix syntax — A1="x" OR A1="y" is an error; the tests go inside OR( ).
  • XOR is the exactly-one variant (odd number of TRUEs, strictly).

NOT

Flip a logical value.

  • In array math, * is AND and + is OR: SUMPRODUCT((A:A="East")*(B:B>100)) counts rows passing both.
  • 'At least 2 of 3': add the conditions — (c1)+(c2)+(c3)>=2.

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