How to use a named range as an output for IF statement in excel?

Question

I am trying to do a simple IF statement in excel which uses a named range which is a range of countries, ie NOT numbers however I am getting the "#VALUE" in the cell with the warning "A value used in this formula is of the wrong data type"

Formula in Cell: =IF($F$5="All", Countries, F5)

where "Countries" is my named range

Can this be done?

Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Welcome to SO. Are you looking for something like that?

=IF(F5="All",TEXTJOIN(", ",,Countries),F5)

Countries range is specified in cells A1:A5 .