Using an IF Formula Mulitple Times in One Cell

[Bob]

I'm working on a project where cell B3 through D3 contain the values "Yes"
and "No." These indicate whether the name in A3 has the documents listed in
B2 through D2. If the value in a cell is "No" I would like for cell I3 to
show which documents each name needs. Finally, when all the information is
complete I would like for it to show "Packet Completed" until H3 states a
"Yes" answer, which then would show "Nothing Needed" For example:

Name Homework Quizzes Test Needs
John Yes No No Quizzes, Test

Say John finishes his quizzes then it would only show Tests in the Needs
Column, and when he finished his tests the needs column would read All
Assignments Completed.

I've tried nesting the IF formula, but it states "Argument too long" in a
message box. Again I nested 5 IF Formulas together. How would I be able to
have Excel work for me to fill in that information automatically as it is
updated?

 

[Mike H]

Bob,

Try this

=IF(B2="Yes","",$B$1&",")&IF(C2="Yes",""," "&$C$1&",")&IF(D2="Yes","","
"&$D$1)

You can also drag it down.

Mike

 

[Mike H]

Bob,

Reading this again I'm confused.


This is the closest I can get but I don't see where H3 comes into things.

=IF(B3="Yes","",$B$2&",")&IF(C3="Yes",""," "&$C$2&",")&IF(D3="Yes","","
"&$D$2)&IF(AND(B3="Yes",C3="Yes",D3="Yes"),"Package Complete","")

Mike

 

[Rick Rothstein]

Does this do what you want? Place in I3 and copy down....

=IF(H3="Yes","Nothing Needed",MID(LEFT(", "&B$2,10*(B3="No"))&LEFT(",
"&C$2,9*(C3="No"))&LEFT(", "&D$2,6*(D3="No")),3,99)&LEFT("Packet
Complete",15*(B3&C3&D3="YesYesYes")))

 

[Rick Rothstein]

I see my newsreader broke the formula at the blank spaces making it hard to
realize the blanks are there. Here is the formula broken apart so the
newsreader won't do that...

=IF(H3="Yes","Nothing Needed",MID(LEFT(", "&B$2,10*(B3="No"))&
LEFT(", "&C$2,9*(C3="No"))&LEFT(", "&D$2,6*(D3="No")),3,99)&
LEFT("Packet Complete",15*(B3&C3&D3="YesYesYes")))

 

[Bob]

Thanks for the help, the last formula worked for me, except I had to change
the 6 where it says (", "&D$2,6*(D3="No")), to 8 to get it to show the entire
data. Thanks again.

 

[Rick Rothstein]

LOL... I had noticed the 6/8 problem myself and I changed it... in my test
code, but I had forgotten that I had copied the original code into the
Clipboard **before** I made that change, so what I posted ended up being the
non-changed code. Sorry about that... but I am glad you were able to figure
out the problem on your own.