Too many arguments in a function in ms excel

Question

=IF(F17="","","",IF(F17="TRUE","PAID","UNPAID"))

If statement in excel displays an error that there are too many arguments. Function is used to determine if cell has a value, if value is equals to TRUE then display PAID else if not then display UNPAID, if value is blank then display blank.

Answer 1

You have too many arguments in your first if statement, you need to replace your second set of empty quotes with your if statement like so:

=IF(F17="","",IF(F17="TRUE","PAID","UNPAID"))

Depending on your data, you might need to drop the quotes on "TRUE" to get it to work.