How to rewrite excel formulas in a readable manner?

Question

I have an Excel file with formulas in this manner:

=IF(OR(ISERROR(G16),ISERROR(G17)),X16,IF(OR(G16=\"xxx\",G16=\"yyy\",G16=\"zzz\"),Y16,IF(G16=\"333\",\"N\\A\",IF(

Answer 1

FormulaDesk is a free Excel add-in that makes complex formulas more readable and easier to understand without having to rewrite them. It makes creating, editing, debugging and understanding formulas much easier. It has two modes: 'Edit View' and 'Explore View', which can be toggled.

• The ‘Edit’ view is an enhanced formula editor, with Intellisense etc. It formats as you type, vertically offsetting nested elements for clarity and understandability.

• The ‘Explore’ view presents the formula in a simple nested/rolled-up way, with the simplest top-level view of your formula first, but allowing you to drill-down to nested expressions. This enables you to quickly understand how/why it is returning the current result. Click the green bars (rolled-up results) to drill-down. Alternatively, click the ‘Expand all’, ‘Collapse all’ buttons.

• In both views you can hover over various elements (eg: functions, parameters etc) to see a popup with more information, such as definition/description, current value etc. Hovering over a range will display its current value for example.

• There are quite a few other capabilities.

[Disclosure: I am the author of FormulaDesk]