Excel Formula too many arguments

Question

I'm trying to see what's wrong with this formula but I'm not seeing it:

=IF(F5:M5;"*Accepted*";IF(F5:M5;">"&TODAY();IF(F5:M5;"*N/A*";"Verified";"Pending")))

Do i missed something? What I'm trying to do is, if the values of F5 to M5 are one of theese conditions, then the column "State" will be verified, if one of the values are not Accepted, greater than today(), or "N/A", then State will be "Pending".

Document1	Document2	Document3	Document4	Document5	Document6	Document7	Document8	Status
Expired	Expired	31/12/2020	30/12/2020	Accepted	Accepted	N/A	24/11/2021
24/12/2020	44197	30/12/2020	30/12/2020	Accepted	Empty	N/A	44563
Expired	Expired	Rejected	44234	Accepted	Accepted	N/A	N/A
Expired	Expired	Incomplete	Incomplete	Accepted	Empty	N/A	N/A
44378	44228	Expired	44203	Accepted	Accepted	N/A	Rejected	Pending
Accepted	Accepted	Accepted	44197	Accepted	Accepted	N/A	N/A	Accepted

Answer 1

You have 3 criteria you need to check

1. Values equal Accepted
2. Values equal N/A
3. Dates are larger than Today()

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If you individually sum the criteria for each row you should end up with 8 ( ie all eight cells in your columns meet one of the criteria listed above ). If the count is less than 8 then one of the values does not meet the criteria and should be Pending as a result.

=IF(COUNTIF(A2:H2,"Accepted")+COUNTIF(A2:H2,"N/A")+COUNTIF(A2:H2,">"&TODAY())=8,"Verified","Pending")

Answer 2

This will do what you want, you can add an IF to get "Verified" and "Pending" instead of True and False, but it works:

=NOT(ISERROR(MATCH(A2:H2;$L$1:$N$1;-1)))

Where L1:N1 is an array containing my 3 lookup values: Accepted, Today and N/A, and it's entered as an Array formula with Ctrl + Shift + Enter Tested on this dataset: