Just to point out, the use of N(A1) will treat any text string as 0 as well,
instead of just blanks. This may not be an issue, but just something to keep
in mind.

HTH,
Elkar


"Ron Coderre" wrote:

The MIN function ignores blanks...that's usually preferred.

Try this:
=MIN(100,N(A1))

Is that something you can work with?
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Regards,

Ron
Microsoft MVP (Excel)
(XL2003, Win XP)

"catherine bodine" <catherine wrote in
message ...
in Excel 2003 I have a formula =MIN (100, A1)

If A1 is blank it returns 100 but if A1=0 then it returns 0.

Why doesn't it see the blank as a 0? Is there a setting or option that I
am
missing? I didn't have this problem in Excel 2000 (my work recently
upgraded
us)