You could have your IF return a 0 (zero) and then suppress the display of
zeroes by clicking TOOLS/OPTIONS, selecting the VIEW tab and turn off the
check box labeled ZERO VALUES.

Another option would be to have an IF in your dependent formulas evaluate
cells that are = to "" to a 0 (zero) so that your dependent calculations
don't go wonky on you.
--
Kevin Backmann


"D" wrote:

I need an if statment to return a true blank. I currently have
=IF(C129<0,C129*-1,"") as a formula, when fales it returns an empty cell
that returns #value when used in calcuations. I do not want it to return a
zero value, nor can I turn on the option to leave a cell blank for a
calculated zero value, due to other calculations that I need to return zero.

Thanks is advance