It also is not the same as empty or blank, so if you do an ISBLANK test on
it, it fails.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"JMB" wrote in message
...
empty string. you probably see them mostly in IF statements. Excel won't
display anything on the screen, but it is not the same as entering a zero
value because it has a text format. So you could run into problems if
dependent cells are trying to perform calculations on a cell that returns
(or
could return) an empty string.


"Easydoesit" wrote:

What do the empty set of quotes mean in some of the functions and
formulas
described here?