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# **Pass or fail with IF**

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**IF** makes a choice. It checks a test, then shows one value when the test is true and another when it's false: =IF(test, value\_if\_true, value\_if\_false).

Click **Continue** when you're ready.

Already know it? Type the formula straight into C2.

C2fx

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