I forgot to mention in my previous response that you made it more clear to me
why the zero works in the if statement. That was the main purpose of my
inquiry.

"David-Melbourne-Australia" wrote:

What your formula is doing in layman terms is... If the contents of 'General
Info'!C2 has a text string or a number in it that is greater than zero, then
put this value, otherwise if it blank, zero, a negative number, etc. then put
null / nothing. Is this what you wanted it to do ? Maybe I need more detail
to understand your query.

You may need to look at functions like ISBLANK(), ISTEXT(), ISNONTEXT(),
ISNUMBER(), T(), etc.

Hope this helps !

David

"--Viewpoint" wrote:

I'm working with a worksheet of cells with general information (text) that I
linked to various cells on worksheets within a workbook. I created the
formula below and it works but I'm not sure it is the most accurate way to
write the formula.

=IF('General Info'!C20,'General Info'!C2,"")

All linked cells contain text, not numbers, so I'm questioning the 0. Any
better alternatives?