Use this approach:

=IF(Sheet2!A1="","",Sheet2!A1)

Note that a formula cannot return a format, so you will have to set
these manually. You can use Paste Special | Formats to copy a range of
formats from one sheet to another.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Oct 22, 3:52*pm, PhilRobinson
wrote:
I am creating a reference to a cell in another worksheet in the same work
book but cells that are blank in the original workshhet are returned with a 0
in the new worksheet. How do I prevent this. I need to keep the same formats
in the second sheet as in the first sheet

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