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Default Cell to be truly blank, not "" or O

I need the Go To / Special / Blanks to be able to "Go to" the cells that are
blank.

The cells I'm trying to "go to" I thought we're blank but I guess since the
cell's result is "" (or what I thought was "blank") it is not picking those
up as blank.

Any suggestions?
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Default Cell to be truly blank, not "" or O

Cell can be truly blank if you go to the cell and delete whatever is there.
If it has a formula then it will not be treated as blank

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I need the Go To / Special / Blanks to be able to "Go to" the cells that are
blank.

The cells I'm trying to "go to" I thought we're blank but I guess since the
cell's result is "" (or what I thought was "blank") it is not picking those
up as blank.

Any suggestions?
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We have repeatedly asked Microsoft to give us a worksheet function like
BLANK() or NULL() that a formula could return to be treated as a blank. So
far...nada.

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Cell can be truly blank if you go to the cell and delete whatever is
there.
If it has a formula then it will not be treated as blank

"David P." wrote:

I need the Go To / Special / Blanks to be able to "Go to" the cells that
are
blank.

The cells I'm trying to "go to" I thought we're blank but I guess since
the
cell's result is "" (or what I thought was "blank") it is not picking
those
up as blank.

Any suggestions?
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David P.



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Default Cell to be truly blank, not "" or O

I use this sub (by Jay) to clear cells with residual zero length null
strings: "" within a selected range. Just select the range, then run the sub.

Sub ClearNulls()
Set rng = Selection
For Each ar In Selection.Areas
For Each itm In ar
If Trim(itm.Value) = "" _
Then itm.ClearContents
Next 'itm
Next 'ar
End Sub

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"David P." wrote:
I need the Go To / Special / Blanks to be able to "Go to" the cells that are
blank.

The cells I'm trying to "go to" I thought we're blank but I guess since the
cell's result is "" (or what I thought was "blank") it is not picking those
up as blank.

Any suggestions?


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Thank you everyone. I racked my brain and came up with this and it worked so
that Go To picked up the cells as blank after running the code:

Columns("A:A").Select
Selection.Replace What:="0", Replacement:="", LookAt:=xlPart, _
SearchOrder:=xlByRows, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False, _
ReplaceFormat:=False
Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).Select

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"Max" wrote:

I use this sub (by Jay) to clear cells with residual zero length null
strings: "" within a selected range. Just select the range, then run the sub.

Sub ClearNulls()
Set rng = Selection
For Each ar In Selection.Areas
For Each itm In ar
If Trim(itm.Value) = "" _
Then itm.ClearContents
Next 'itm
Next 'ar
End Sub

--
Max
Singapore
http://savefile.com/projects/236895
Downloads:21,000 Files:370 Subscribers:66
xdemechanik
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"David P." wrote:
I need the Go To / Special / Blanks to be able to "Go to" the cells that are
blank.

The cells I'm trying to "go to" I thought we're blank but I guess since the
cell's result is "" (or what I thought was "blank") it is not picking those
up as blank.

Any suggestions?


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