Hi!

I thought of something like this if(or(A1=" ",A2=" "), but don't think you
can use "IF" in conditional formatting

You can, but in this case it's not needed. Try this:

=OR(A1="",A2="")

However, instead of using conditional formatting why not just write the
subtraction formula in B2 to test for blanks?

=IF(OR(A1="",A2=""),"",A2-A1)

Biff

"John" wrote in message
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I have 2 cells which I select entries from a drop-down (A1 and A2) B2 then
does a simple subtraction of whats selected in A1 and A2

A user can select only A1 or A2, this would be incomplete thus I want in
this instance to "blank" out the value returned in B2 i.e. with white
font, as the result is not very meaning full

How would I do this under conditional formatting in B2

I thought of something like this if(or(A1=" ",A2=" "), but don't think you
can use "IF" in conditional formatting


Thanks