I would like to have a formula which will tell me if a time in a cell is between 2 separate vlaues in other cells and to return a value if so.
I have already created the below code but this is not returning any values back at all.
=IF(AND(F4>=$R$1,F4<P1),"Night Shift",IF(AND(F4>=$P$1,F4<$Q$1),"AM Shift",IF(AND(F4>=$Q$1,F4<$R$1),"PM Shift","")))
In this example the cell values are (P1 = 06:00, Q1 = 14:00, R1 = 22:00). The value in the F4 is 00:31:38.
Any help would be appreciated.
Your first AND needs to adjust a little.
Excel sees TIME as a fraction of 1 whole day. So 00:31:38 though you meant it to be the next day from 22:00, Excel does not know that and as such will not see it greater than 22:00
We also do not need to test for the Night Shift. It is the only option left if the time is not in one of the others:
=IF(F4<>"",IF(AND(F4>=$P$1,F4<$Q$1),"AM Shift",IF(AND(F4>=$Q$1,F4<$R$1),"PM Shift","Night Shift")),"")
You could also create a small table like such:
0 6:00 14:00 22:00
Night Shift AM Shift PM Shift Night Shift
Then use a HLOOKUP to return the correct value:
=HLOOKUP(F4,O1:R2,2,TRUE)
I took a slightly different path that Scotts.
=OR($F$4<$P$1,$F$4>=$R$1) =AND($F$4>=$P$1,$F$4<$Q$1) =AND($F$4>=$Q$1,$F$4<$R$1) Stick the three conditions together and you have:
=IF(OR($F$4<$P$1,$F$4>=$R$1),"Night Shift",IF(AND($F$4>=$P$1,$F$4<$Q$1),"AM Shift",IF(AND($F$4>=$Q$1,$F$4<$R$1),"PM Shift","")))
Edit
During testing I entered 00:00:00 in A1 and =A1+TIMEVALUE("00:01:00") in A2:A1440.
At 06:00:00, 14:00:00 and 22:00:00 the changeover in shift happened a minute later.
If, however, I manually typed in 06:00:00 the changeover happened on the hour. This seems to be because TIMEVALUE is calculating 6AM as 0.2499999 rather than 0.25.
