Try:

=IF(AND(C3=0,C3<""),1,0)

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"tmela" wrote in
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only a beginner any help would be appreciated.
Want to use the formula
=IF(C3=0,1,0) but if the cell C3 is blank (has no data) it is treating
it as 0.
any way around this problem?
Many thanks in anticipation of you help


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