Hi Karen,

Blank cells don't give #VALUE when summed, cells with spaces do.
You can check with the LEN() function; if the result is not zero, there's something in the cell.

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"karen" wrote in message ...
| I'm downloading data from a database into Excel; some of the cells have $0
| values, but some are just blank. If I sum a row or a column which includes a
| blank cell, I get an error message: #VALUE! How can I convert the blank
| cells to zeros?
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| karen