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Default Percentage equals 0 error

"T. Valko" wrote
in response to "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk:
Can't you get away with just =IF(H44=0,0,G44/H44) ?

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Yes, but you could also get away with just this
if you wanted to:
=IF(H44,G44/H44,0)


That returns an error if H44 is the null string. I thought that might be
why you had included the COUNT condition. But the following covers both
adequately:

=IF(N(H44),N(G44)/H44,0)


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"T. Valko" wrote in message
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Can't you get away with just =IF(H44=0,0,G44/H44) ?
[Unless, of course, there is text in G44?]


Yes, but you could also get away with just this if you wanted to:

=IF(H44,G44/H44,0)

That's why the first line in my reply was:

One way...


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in message
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Can't you get away with just =IF(H44=0,0,G44/H44) ?
[Unless, of course, there is text in G44?]
--
David Biddulph


"T. Valko" wrote in message
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One way...

=IF(OR(H44=0,COUNT(G44:H44)<2),0,G44/H44)

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Richard Horn" wrote in message
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I know if I ask for the percentage of =G44/H44 and both columns contain
a 0,
or H44 contains a 0, Excel will return a #DIV/0! error. Is there anyway
to
override that and display 0% until I actually get the numbers in there
from a
database query I need to run, which may be later in the year?