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Asked: 2026-06-14T10:09:26+00:00

long time no chat, I am running into a situation in where a formula

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long time no chat, I am running into a situation in where a formula I wrote up seems not to be working correctly. I know it’s probably me, but logic based programming seems to be the bane of my existence.

=IF(D1>2010,"New",IF(D1<2010,"Old",""))

Is the formula in question, now if I got this down correctly, which I thought I did, is that if D1 is greater than the year 2010 the cell would say New, and if it’s less than 2010, it would say Old.

It’s not working, for some reason I can’t figure out why.

I have a similar formula that works:

=IF($B155<>"","Full",IF($J155<>"","Full","Empty"))

I figured the logic would be similar, it seems I’m wrong. Can someone help me solve this simple quandary, logic based math has never been my strong suit. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If D1=2010, there’s no true condition in IF clauses, and the result will be a blank cell ("").

    =IF(D1>=2010,"New",IF(D1<2010,"Old","")) should do the trick.

    If D1 is formatted as a Date, the following formula will give the desired result:

    =IF(YEAR(D1)>=2010,"New",IF(YEAR(D1)<2010,"Old",""))
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