Why not just test the cell's value?

=IF(A1="","A1 is blank","A1 has something in it")

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"bearspa" wrote in message
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I'm having a problem inserting a blank in a cell using a function so that
another formula that refers to this blank reads it as a blank.

For example, if A1 is a blank cell:

Formula Result

=ISBLANK(A1) TRUE
=IF(ISBLANK(A1)," ",1)
=ISBLANK(A3) FALSE

In the above example, even though =IF(ISBLANK(A1)," ",1) shows a blank
cell
in A3, a reference to it in another formula shows that Excel does not
think
it is blank.

How do you write a formula so that there is truly nothing in the cell as a
result?