Catalin.B,

I thank you kindly for your reply. I did miss that one entry of N/A verus NA, unfortunately this does not fix my problem. I will explain in just a moment.

The reason that the qualifier for "Red Tagged" comes first is that it takes priority over all other conditions. If "Red Tagged" is true, I do not want the formula to continue testing the other conditions.

My problem is with column I with the heading of Calib Date. If the data within these cells are only dates, the formula works okay. However, in the "real world" there are valid entries which the line item does not require a Calib (short for calibration). Thus, what I am attempting to do with the formula is to treat any row entry that has "NA" in row I as a special case such that either I ignor the part of the formula testing the date comparison for that row or to force it to agree that the calibration is good within the limited perameters of the formula.

Did I make myself clear?

i tested your worksheet.. (played with NA and colours )
Which is the desired status word in column E for an "NA" entry in column I ?

here is your workbook with a little modiffication

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Current Status Worksheet.xls (33.5 KB, 9 views)