Question

Reading the documentation, I’m led to believe Google Docs should be able to handle if-statements in the following format (straight from the documentation):

IF(test, then_value, otherwise_value)

So, as a test, I try the following:

=IF(2>1, 2, 1)

This should obviously print 2 since two will always be greater than one. However, this throws me an error. So, I try the following instead:

=IF(1=1, 1, 1)

This also gives me an error.

Obviously I’m doing something wrong here, unless Google stopped supporting if-statements in their docs. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Google has obviously changed this without changing the proper documentation. According to the documentation, as of writing this, the correct way to do this is as in my question:

=IF(2>1, 2, 1)

However, if you start writing “=IF” in Google Drive, a popup guides you in the correct direction, and it seems they have changed the syntax to:

=IF(2>1; 2; 1)

Note the use of semicolons instead of commas. That’s it.