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Force Excel To Treat A Cell As Blank
I want to have the false part of an IF statement to return a...null?...value
I guess. I want Excel to treat the cell as if it were blank. Right now, this is the function I have: =IF(M4<"",IF(ISERROR(YEAR(N4)),M4,N4),"") It's the ,"" part that I want to replace with whatever will make the cell appear empty. TIA. -- Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now! |
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Force Excel To Treat A Cell As Blank
If a cell is NOT empty [such as having a formula in it], you can't make Excel
think it is empty. You can only make it LOOK empty, which is what you've done. HTH, -- Gary Brown If this post was helpful, please click the ''Yes'' button next to ''Was this Post Helpfull to you?''. "MDW" wrote: I want to have the false part of an IF statement to return a...null?...value I guess. I want Excel to treat the cell as if it were blank. Right now, this is the function I have: =IF(M4<"",IF(ISERROR(YEAR(N4)),M4,N4),"") It's the ,"" part that I want to replace with whatever will make the cell appear empty. TIA. -- Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now! |
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Force Excel To Treat A Cell As Blank
If a cell contains a formula, then the cell is not blank. Even if the
formula returns nothing, the presence of the formula makes the cell non-blank. Perhaps if you explained what you are trying to do, an alternative could be suggested. HTH, Elkar "MDW" wrote: I want to have the false part of an IF statement to return a...null?...value I guess. I want Excel to treat the cell as if it were blank. Right now, this is the function I have: =IF(M4<"",IF(ISERROR(YEAR(N4)),M4,N4),"") It's the ,"" part that I want to replace with whatever will make the cell appear empty. TIA. -- Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now! |
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Force Excel To Treat A Cell As Blank
The zero length string ( "" or null as you call it), will give a cell the
appearance of being empty (blank), since there is nothing visible displayed in the cell. Can I guess that it could be that you're looking for something in relation to perhaps charting (graphing). If so, try replacing the "" with NA() which XL does not recognize as a value to graph. The cell will however, display the #N/A error. -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "MDW" wrote in message ... I want to have the false part of an IF statement to return a...null?...value I guess. I want Excel to treat the cell as if it were blank. Right now, this is the function I have: =IF(M4<"",IF(ISERROR(YEAR(N4)),M4,N4),"") It's the ,"" part that I want to replace with whatever will make the cell appear empty. TIA. -- Hmm...they have the Internet on COMPUTERS now! |
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