IF statement with blank cells

I feel like I'm generally pretty good with formulas but I'm a bit stumped here. Thinking I need to use an IF statement, but can't fully make it work.

What I'm looking to do is have the formula in column AD. If there is a value in AC I would like that to return. If there is not a value in AC I would like AA to return. If there is not a value in AA I would like Y to return and if there is nothing in Y I would like to default to the values in column W. I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but can't figure it out...

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I can't see your row identifiers, so assume your data starts on row 12 and adjust accordingly. Try this in AD12:

=IF(AC12<>"",AC12,IF(AA12<>"",AA12,IF(Y12<>"",Y12,W12)))

Copy down as required.

Hope this helps.

Pete

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Pete

Seemed like what you are looking for is the value of the last non-blank cell: =LOOKUP(2,1/(W5:AC5<>""),W5:AC5), assuming column X does not contain a number.

Alternatively, =IFERROR(LOOKUP(2,1/(Y5:AC5<>""),Y5:AC5),W5)