Thanks for your reply
Here is my formula
=B11+D11+F11+H11+J11+L11+N11+P11+R11+T11+V11+X11+Z 11+AB11+AD11+AF11+AH11+AJ11+AL11+AN11+AP11+AR11+AT 11+AV11+AX11+AZ11+BB11+BD11+BF11+BH11
I need to make sure that if PTO is typed into ANY CELL that is gives back
the value of 0 in the formula. Not just A1.


"PCLIVE" wrote:

Here's an example of how you could do that.

Original formula may be:
=A1+B1

But if A1 is PTO, then:
=IF(A1="PTO",0,A1)+B1

HTH,
Paul

"John Krsulic" <John wrote in message
...
I am trying to create what I would call an if/then formula in Excel 2003.
If
someone types the letters PTO into a cell have tat equal zero in the
formula.
I have a sum formula of a set of cells I want Excel to be able to add a
zero
into the formula if someone types the letters PTO into the cell. My
formula
works great until someone types letters into a cell then - of course -I
get a
value error in the cell.