: When vs. If vs. In situation where An excerpt from Microsoft Writing Style Guide, which I'm trying to follow: Use if to express a condition, use whether to express uncertainty, and use when

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An excerpt from Microsoft Writing Style Guide, which I'm trying to follow:

Use if to express a condition, use whether to express uncertainty, and use when for situations that require preparation or to denote the passage of time. Examples:

If you don't know whether a network key is needed, contact your network administrator.
Use your BitLocker recovery key to sign in if you're locked out of your computer after too many failed password attempts.
When Setup is complete, restart your computer.
To find out whether TrueType fonts are available ….
Save a webpage to view it later, even if you're not connected to the internet.
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/a-z-word-list-term-collections/i/if-vs-whether-vs-when
Here is an old version of my text; the version that I have written before trying to follow Microsoft recommendations:

When you need key–value pairs, use associative arrays.
Otherwise, use simple ones.

According to Microsoft recommendations, I changed it to

If you need key–value pairs, use associative arrays.
Otherwise, use simple ones.

But now it doesn't look syntactically correct to me. The problem is that I think that "if" must not be followed by a plural form. (My primary language is different from English.)
Here is the solution I came to, though I'm not sure it is really good or even correct:

In situations where you need key–value pairs, use associative arrays.
Otherwise, use simple ones.

How would you resolve such an issue? Is my solution good?
edit. Here is how simple and associative arrays look:
SimpleArray = ["Value1", "Value2", "Value3"]

AssociativeArray = ["Key1": "Value1", "Key2": "Value2", "Key3": "Value3"]

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