The company's headquarters is in New York, and all of the other offices are local. The spreadsheet above shows a list of SnackWorld's office locations around the country. If you haven't used IF statements yet, check out our IF statement tutorial first. The following example uses the IF function.

Hint: For the last example above, you'll have to read up on how the RIGHT function works if you don't already know it!

Output: FALSE = RIGHT( 'Boston, MA', 2) 'MA' Can you tell why the following formulas output the given results? = 'Boston' 'San Francisco' Of course, '' doesn't have to be used on numbers. This formula outputs FALSE, because 45 is equal to 45. Let's take a look at another simple example using integers: = 45 45 The above formula outputs TRUE, because 6 does not equal 8. Let's take a look at the 'does not equal' operator in action to see how we can use it in a simple formula: = 6 8 This is the exact opposite functionality of the equals sign (=), which will output TRUE if the values on either side of it are equal and FALSE if they are not. If they are not equal, it will output TRUE, and if they are equal, it will output FALSE. Whenever Excel sees this symbol in your formulas, it will assess whether the two statements on opposite sides of these brackets are equal to one another. Excel's 'does not equal' operator is simple: a pair of brackets pointing away from each other, like so: ' '.

Does not equal symbol twitter