That's the way it is.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Ake" wrote in message
...
Would it really upset the VB syntax that much if "" was considered as
empty
as if no characters at all had been entered?

/ Åke

"Jon Peltier" wrote:

"" has never done that. We have asked for such a BLANK() or NULL()
function,
but have never seen such.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Ake" wrote in message
...
Yes thank you, that does the job. I still think that MS should consider
a
way
to imprint "Empty" in a cell from a formula, now that "" does not do
that.
/
Ake

"David Biddulph" wrote:

You can deal with the "irritating ... text" in the table by
conditional
formatting, colouring the font white (or your cell's background
colour)
if
the cell satisfies the CF condition/ Formula is/ =ISNA(A1)
--
David Biddulph

"Ake" wrote in message
...
Yes, you are right. But that solves the plotting problem only- but
it
still
does show up as irritating (to me ;-) text in the table, rather than
"empty
space". /Ake

"David Biddulph" wrote:

You have failed to quote any of the message to which you are
replying,
so
I
don't know what has already been suggested, but if you don't want
the
chart
to plot your "" as a zero value, try changing
IF(Condition;Something;"")
to
IF(Condition;Something;NA())
--
David Biddulph

"Ake" wrote in message
...
Thanks a lot Jon,

That's it. I did not realize that "" is in fact a string. And I
did
my
small
data set testing using "no data" instead of "" which I thought
meant
the
same
thing. So I got confused by the results.

So, how should I actually do IF(Condition;Something;"") then?
The reason I use it is that it works well on the Y-data, and that
the
table
I plot from looks "as clean as it is" (I don't want to fill all
empty
cells
with "########").

Is there a workaround, or even some way to force the plot to
"think
right".

Thank's again for clearing this up / Ake