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Default Text treated as a numeric value?
Try this instead:

=IF(ISNUMBER(I14),I14,IF(OR(I14="P",I14="E"),I$13, 0))

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jul 23, 5:30 pm, betany70
wrote:
In the following equation I am trying to return a value if the cell contains
a number - I used if the cell is greater than zero but the formula is trating
a text value as true .... help?

=IF(I140,I14,IF(OR(I14="P",I14="E"),I$13,0))


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