The Excel AND Function

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Basic Description

The Excel AND function tests a number of user-defined conditions and returns a result of:

The syntax of the function is :

where the arguments, logical_test1, [logical_test2], etc, are conditions that evaluate to either TRUE or FALSE.

In Excel 2007 or 2010, you can enter up to 255 logical_test arguments to the Excel And function. However, in Excel 2003, the function can only handle up to 30 arguments.

Note that, if the logical_tests evaluate to numbers, instead of logical values, the value zero evaluates to FALSE and all non-zero values are treated as the logical value TRUE.

Excel And Function Examples

The following spreadsheet shows three examples of the Excel And function, with different conditions.

The spreadsheet on the left shows the formulas and the spreadsheet on the right shows the results.

Note that, in the above example spreadsheet:

• the function in cell C1 evaluates to TRUE, as BOTH of the supplied conditions are TRUE
• the function in cell C2 evaluates to FALSE, as the third condition, B2>12, is FALSE
• the function in cell C3 evaluates to FALSE, as ALL of the supplied conditions are FALSE

Further examples of the Excel And function can be found on the Microsoft Office website.

And Function Errors

If you get an error from the Excel And Function, this is likely to be the #VALUE! error: