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Quirk found

Category: Logical · Last tested 2026-09-01

Real compatibility results for the AND function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, with desktop Excel behavior from Microsoft’s official documentation (we do not run desktop Excel — Excel for the web is a different application and is executed separately). Syntax and links to that documentation are below.

Support matrix

Engine	Documented	Live-tested	Verdict
Excel (desktop)	Yes	No — documented only	n/a
Excel for the web	—	Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01)	Quirk found
Google Sheets	Yes	Yes (Drive import, 2026-08-29)	Supported, behaves as documented
LibreOffice Calc	Yes	Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-07-29)	Supported, behaves as documented

LibreOffice version history

We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when AND’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.

LibreOffice version	Verdict	Tested
24.2.0.3	Supported, behaves as documented	2026-08-29
24.8.7.2	Supported, behaves as documented	2026-08-29
25.2.0.3	Supported, behaves as documented	2026-08-29
25.8.7.3	Supported, behaves as documented	2026-07-29

Discovered quirks

=AND(TRUE,"abc") on Excel for the web returned True, but the documented/expected result is #VALUE!.
Provenance
MISMATCH vs expected: expected '#VALUE!', got True

Executed test cases

Excel for the web (executed 2026-09-01 via OneDrive recalculation)

These values come from Excel for the web, not from desktop Excel. They are two different implementations of the calculation engine, and this run measured only the web one: the corpus was uploaded to OneDrive as .xlsx, recalculated by Excel for the web on open, and downloaded again for readback. Excel for the web is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so the run is identified by its date. Where a value here disagrees with the Expected column — which is Microsoft’s documentation of the desktop product — we cannot tell you whether the web engine diverges from the desktop one or the documentation is wrong about both, because we do not run desktop Excel.

Formula	Description	Result	Expected	Verdict
=AND(TRUE,TRUE)	Both arguments TRUE -> TRUE	True	True	Matched
=AND(TRUE,FALSE)	One argument FALSE -> FALSE	False	False	Matched
=AND(A1:A3)	A range of numbers is coerced to logical values (0=FALSE, nonzero=TRUE); one zero makes the whole AND FALSE	False	False Provenance Numeric coercion in ranges confirmed via https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/excel-and-or-xor-not-functions/ since Microsoft's own AND page doesn't give an explicit numeric example.	Matched
=AND(A1:A3)	A range of all-nonzero numbers coerces to all-TRUE -> TRUE	True	True	Matched
=AND(TRUE,"abc")	An arbitrary text literal (not a range) does not evaluate to a logical value -> #VALUE!, per doc: 'arguments must evaluate to logical values'	True	#VALUE!	Mismatch

Google Sheets (executed 2026-08-29 via Drive import)

Google Sheets is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so this run is identified by its date. The corpus was imported to Drive as .xlsx, recalculated by Sheets, and exported back for readback.

Formula	Description	Result	Expected	Verdict
=AND(TRUE,TRUE)	Both arguments TRUE -> TRUE	True	True	Matched
=AND(TRUE,FALSE)	One argument FALSE -> FALSE	False	False	Matched
=AND(A1:A3)	A range of numbers is coerced to logical values (0=FALSE, nonzero=TRUE); one zero makes the whole AND FALSE	False	False Provenance Numeric coercion in ranges confirmed via https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/excel-and-or-xor-not-functions/ since Microsoft's own AND page doesn't give an explicit numeric example.	Matched
=AND(A1:A3)	A range of all-nonzero numbers coerces to all-TRUE -> TRUE	True	True	Matched
=AND(TRUE,"abc")	An arbitrary text literal (not a range) does not evaluate to a logical value -> #VALUE!, per doc: 'arguments must evaluate to logical values'	#VALUE!	#VALUE!	Matched

LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-07-29)

Formula	Description	Result	Expected	Verdict
=AND(TRUE,TRUE)	Both arguments TRUE -> TRUE	True	True	Matched
=AND(TRUE,FALSE)	One argument FALSE -> FALSE	False	False	Matched
=AND(A1:A3)	A range of numbers is coerced to logical values (0=FALSE, nonzero=TRUE); one zero makes the whole AND FALSE	False	False Provenance Numeric coercion in ranges confirmed via https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/excel-and-or-xor-not-functions/ since Microsoft's own AND page doesn't give an explicit numeric example.	Matched
=AND(A1:A3)	A range of all-nonzero numbers coerces to all-TRUE -> TRUE	True	True	Matched
=AND(TRUE,"abc")	An arbitrary text literal (not a range) does not evaluate to a logical value -> #VALUE!, per doc: 'arguments must evaluate to logical values'	#VALUE!	#VALUE!	Matched

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