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Mike H Mike H is offline
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Default what does "" signify in an Excel formula

It literally means nothing

=IF(A1=""," It's empty","data found")

So the above formula looks if A1="" i.e. nothing
and if that true returns 'It's empty".

Mike

"clueless" wrote:

Can anyone help?