I have formulas in cells that return a #DIV/0 because there is no data to put
in dependent cells in the formula. Someone show me, apparently way too long
ago, how to use ISERROR to cause the value to be "0" if an error was found
and to be the output of the formula if no errors were found.

It was something like =ISERROR(J5,0,E5/F5) but that's not working. I would
appreciate some help with the syntax.

Thanks

Does this help?

=IF(ISERROR(B3/C3),"",B3/C3)

Mike

"ConfusedNHouston" wrote:

I have formulas in cells that return a #DIV/0 because there is no data to put
in dependent cells in the formula. Someone show me, apparently way too long
ago, how to use ISERROR to cause the value to be "0" if an error was found
and to be the output of the formula if no errors were found.

It was something like =ISERROR(J5,0,E5/F5) but that's not working. I would
appreciate some help with the syntax.

Thanks

Probably:

=IF(ISERROR(E5/F5),0,E5/F5)

But you could just use:

=IF(F5=0,0,E5/F5)

Regards

Trevor


"ConfusedNHouston" wrote in
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I have formulas in cells that return a #DIV/0 because there is no data to
put
in dependent cells in the formula. Someone show me, apparently way too
long
ago, how to use ISERROR to cause the value to be "0" if an error was found
and to be the output of the formula if no errors were found.

It was something like =ISERROR(J5,0,E5/F5) but that's not working. I
would
appreciate some help with the syntax.

Thanks

It might have been:
=if(iserror(e5/f5),0,e5/f5)

or

if e5 and f5 are always numbers (that may be 0):
=if(f5=0,0,e5/f5)



ConfusedNHouston wrote:

I have formulas in cells that return a #DIV/0 because there is no data to put
in dependent cells in the formula. Someone show me, apparently way too long
ago, how to use ISERROR to cause the value to be "0" if an error was found
and to be the output of the formula if no errors were found.

It was something like =ISERROR(J5,0,E5/F5) but that's not working. I would
appreciate some help with the syntax.

Thanks

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Dave Peterson