Using Excel as a scheduling tool is a great skill to have under your belt. Learn how to use SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions.

We’ll start with three easy IF statements, then move on to nested IF statements and multi-function IF statements. At the end we’ll get fancy with COUNTIF, SUMIF, AVERAGEIF, and IF with wildcards.

In normal circumstances, Excel places a limit on the number of nested conditional formulas that you can use. The limit is 7. However, it is possible to circumvent the limitation over the number of ...