And and Or troubles within an IF statement

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I m trying to use  And   amp   Or  within an If statement  I probably have my syntax wrong   the result comes back false when the data should make it true  Here is the code   ElseIf  origNum    006260006  Or origNum    30062600006   And creditOrDebit    D  Then   do things here  End If   -When I debug and come to this line it hops over it and doesn t enter in   -origNum actually equals  006260006  and creditOrDebit    D    -so I m assuming my  Or  statement isn t working   -Hopefully this is a quick easy question  Thanks

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This is not an answer  but too long for a comment     In reply to JP s answers   comments  I have run the following test to compare the performance of the 2 methods  The Profiler object is a custom class - but in summary  it uses a kernel32 function which is fairly accurate  Private Declare Sub GetLocalTime Lib  kernel32   lpSystemTime As SYSTEMTIME     Sub test      Dim origNum As String   Dim creditOrDebit As String   Dim b As Boolean   Dim p As Profiler   Dim i As Long    Set p   New Profiler    origNum    30062600006    creditOrDebit    D     p startTimer   nested ifs      For i   1 To 1000000      If creditOrDebit    D  Then       If origNum    006260006  Then         b   True       ElseIf origNum    30062600006  Then         b   True       End If     End If    Next i    p stopTimer   nested ifs     p startTimer   or and      For i   1 To 1000000      If  origNum    006260006  Or origNum    30062600006   And creditOrDebit    D  Then       b   True     End If    Next i    p stopTimer   or and      p printReport  End Sub   The results of 5 runs  in ms for 1m loops       20-Jun-2012 19 28 25   nested ifs  x1   156 - Last Run  156 - Average Run  156   or and  x1   125 - Last Run  125 - Average Run  125      20-Jun-2012 19 28 26   nested ifs  x1   156 - Last Run  156 - Average Run  156   or and  x1   125 - Last Run  125 - Average Run  125      20-Jun-2012 19 28 27   nested ifs  x1   140 - Last Run  140 - Average Run  140   or and  x1   125 - Last Run  125 - Average Run  125      20-Jun-2012 19 28 28   nested ifs  x1   140 - Last Run  140 - Average Run  140   or and  x1   141 - Last Run  141 - Average Run  141      20-Jun-2012 19 28 29   nested ifs  x1   156 - Last Run  156 - Average Run  156   or and  x1   125 - Last Run  125 - Average Run  125   Note  If creditOrDebit is not  D   JP s code runs faster  around 60ms vs  125ms for the or and code

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The problem is probably somewhere else  Try this code for example   Sub test      origNum    006260006    creditOrDebit    D     If  origNum    006260006  Or origNum    30062600006   And creditOrDebit    D  Then     MsgBox  OK    End If  End Sub   And you will see that your Or works as expected  Are you sure that your ElseIf statement is executed  it will not be executed if any of the if elseif before is true

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I like assylias  answer  however I would refactor it as follows   Sub test    Dim origNum As String Dim creditOrDebit As String  origNum    30062600006  creditOrDebit    D   If creditOrDebit    D  Then   If origNum    006260006  Then     MsgBox  OK    ElseIf origNum    30062600006  Then     MsgBox  OK    End If End If  End Sub   This might save you some CPU cycles since if creditOrDebit is  lt  gt   D  there is no point in checking the value of origNum   Update   I used the following procedure to test my theory that my procedure is faster   Public Declare Function timeGetTime Lib  winmm dll     As Long  Sub DoTests2      Dim startTime1 As Long   Dim endTime1 As Long   Dim startTime2 As Long   Dim endTime2 As Long   Dim i As Long   Dim msg As String    Const numberOfLoops As Long   10000   Const origNum As String    006260006    Const creditOrDebit As String    D     startTime1   timeGetTime   For i   1 To numberOfLoops     If creditOrDebit    D  Then       If origNum    006260006  Then           do something here         Debug Print  OK        ElseIf origNum    30062600006  Then           do something here         Debug Print  OK        End If     End If   Next i   endTime1   timeGetTime    startTime2   timeGetTime   For i   1 To numberOfLoops     If  origNum    006260006  Or origNum    30062600006   And         creditOrDebit    D  Then         do something here       Debug Print  OK      End If   Next i   endTime2   timeGetTime    msg    number of iterations     amp  numberOfLoops  amp  vbNewLine   msg   msg  amp   JP proc     amp  Format   endTime1 - startTime1             amp             ms   amp  vbNewLine   msg   msg  amp   assylias proc     amp  Format   endTime2 - startTime2             amp             ms     MsgBox msg  End Sub   I must have a slow computer because 1 000 000 iterations took nowhere near  200 ms as with assylias  test  I had to limit the iterations to 10 000 -- hey  I have other things to do     After running the above procedure 10 times  my procedure is faster only 20  of the time  However  when it is slower it is only superficially slower  As assylias pointed out  however  when creditOrDebit is  lt  gt  D   my procedure is at least twice as fast  I was able to reasonably test it at 100 million iterations   And that is why I refactored it - to short-circuit the logic so that origNum doesn t need to be evaluated when creditOrDebit  lt  gt   D    At this point  the rest depends on the OP s spreadsheet  If creditOrDebit is likely to equal D  then use assylias  procedure  because it will usually run faster  But if creditOrDebit has a wide range of possible values  and D is not any more likely to be the target value  my procedure will leverage that to prevent needlessly evaluating the other variable

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