stupid excel question

Lets say cell A1 contains 'Deloitte'. In cell A2, I want it to say 'Big 4' if cell A1 contains 'Deloitte', 'KPMG', 'Ernst & Young', or 'PWC'.

What should the formula for A2 be? I've tried

=IF(A1=OR("Deloitte","KPMG","Ernst & Young","PMC"),"Big 4","Not Big 4")

but that doesn't seem to give me the results I want

2 Comments
 

OR is the logical OR, not a multiple-value returning function.

The correct version of your formula: =IF(OR(A1="Deloitte",A1="KPMG",A1="Ernst & Young",A1="PMC"),"Big 4","Not Big 4")

The OR function here evaluates each of the 4 conditions; if any are true, it returns True.

 

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