Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

=IF(A1<12;"";A1*2)

HTH. Best wishes Harald

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

€žMacPadana€� ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says "Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

€žMacPadana€� ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells. Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says "Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

€žMacPadana€� ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median, Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells. Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says "Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

€žMacPadana€� ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

Your formulas are constructed to return an appearance of being empty by
using "",
which is actually a zero length string.
The important word here being "string", which means TEXT.

Perhaps your best choice is to use numeric zero,
and eliminate its display by:

From the Menu bar,
<Tools <Options <Display tab,
and *uncheck* "zero values" under Window Options.
--

HTH,

RD
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Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit!
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"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median, Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells.
Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says "Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

"MacPadana" ezt írta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

The only problem is that Excel will use the zeros in calculating the
statistics making them completely inaccurate.

I appreciate everyone's input. This seams to be a tougher question than I
originally thought.

Mac

"RagDyeR" wrote:

Your formulas are constructed to return an appearance of being empty by
using "",
which is actually a zero length string.
The important word here being "string", which means TEXT.

Perhaps your best choice is to use numeric zero,
and eliminate its display by:

From the Menu bar,
<Tools <Options <Display tab,
and *uncheck* "zero values" under Window Options.
--

HTH,

RD
================================================== ===
Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit!
================================================== ===
"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median, Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells.
Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says "Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

"MacPadana" ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

But in that case, the invisible zero would be fed into the OP's statistical
calculation, which may well not be what he wants.
--
David Biddulph

"RagDyeR" wrote in message
...
Your formulas are constructed to return an appearance of being empty by
using "",
which is actually a zero length string.
The important word here being "string", which means TEXT.

Perhaps your best choice is to use numeric zero,
and eliminate its display by:

From the Menu bar,
<Tools <Options <Display tab,
and *uncheck* "zero values" under Window Options.
--

HTH,

RD
================================================== ===
Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit!
================================================== ===
"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median,
Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there
is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new
column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells.
Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says
"Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

"MacPadana" ezt írta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

I see a couple of options.

1. Create a range which has just the cells greater than 70. For example,
filter out the cells less than 70, copy that range, and then do the
statistics on the new range.

2. Change your statistical calculations to exclude values below 70. For
example, to calculate the mean of all the values in column C greater than
70, you can use:
=SUMIF(C:C,"=70")/COUNTIF(C:C,"=70")

As statistics aren't my strong suit, I won't be able to help you on all the
formulas. However, there's lots of people in this group who can. Just post
another question like "How do I calculate the standard deviation of column
C, excluding values below 70?". When you post, make sure you identify what
version of Excel you are using, because it will make a difference in the
functions available.

Regards,
Fred

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median,
Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there
is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new
column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells.
Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says
"Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

€žMacPadana€� ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

Perfect solution: filter, copy, paste. Thanks, Fred and everyone else.

Mac

"Fred Smith" wrote:

I see a couple of options.

1. Create a range which has just the cells greater than 70. For example,
filter out the cells less than 70, copy that range, and then do the
statistics on the new range.

2. Change your statistical calculations to exclude values below 70. For
example, to calculate the mean of all the values in column C greater than
70, you can use:
=SUMIF(C:C,"=70")/COUNTIF(C:C,"=70")

As statistics aren't my strong suit, I won't be able to help you on all the
formulas. However, there's lots of people in this group who can. Just post
another question like "How do I calculate the standard deviation of column
C, excluding values below 70?". When you post, make sure you identify what
version of Excel you are using, because it will make a difference in the
functions available.

Regards,
Fred

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median,
Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there
is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new
column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells.
Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says
"Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

€žMacPadana€� ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

Sorry to have to revisit this one. Now I have a range of cells I need to
include in a chart. As long as the cells are blank, the line on the graph
stops, which is what I want. However, if I put in the formula
=IF(B30,(C3/B3),""), Excell interprates "" as zero and the line on my chart
drops to zero. I need it to calculate a value as soon as someone enters a
value in B3, otherwise, it should treat it exactly as if it were blank. Any
suggestions wil be eagerly tested.

Mac

"MacPadana" wrote:

Perfect solution: filter, copy, paste. Thanks, Fred and everyone else.

Mac

"Fred Smith" wrote:

I see a couple of options.

1. Create a range which has just the cells greater than 70. For example,
filter out the cells less than 70, copy that range, and then do the
statistics on the new range.

2. Change your statistical calculations to exclude values below 70. For
example, to calculate the mean of all the values in column C greater than
70, you can use:
=SUMIF(C:C,"=70")/COUNTIF(C:C,"=70")

As statistics aren't my strong suit, I won't be able to help you on all the
formulas. However, there's lots of people in this group who can. Just post
another question like "How do I calculate the standard deviation of column
C, excluding values below 70?". When you post, make sure you identify what
version of Excel you are using, because it will make a difference in the
functions available.

Regards,
Fred

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in Column C
that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that populated I want to
use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis tool to get Mean, Median,
Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon as there
is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the new
column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If there is an
easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank cells.
Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help you.
Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says
"Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

€žMacPadana€� ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

Change =IF(B30,(C3/B3),"") to =IF(B30,C3/B3,NA())

Note that you are rejecting negative values of B3. If you are merely trying
to deal with blank in B3, or to avoid a divide by zero, you might prefer
=IF(B3<0,C3/B3,NA())
--
David Biddulph


MacPadana wrote:
Sorry to have to revisit this one. Now I have a range of cells I need
to include in a chart. As long as the cells are blank, the line on
the graph stops, which is what I want. However, if I put in the
formula =IF(B30,(C3/B3),""), Excell interprates "" as zero and the
line on my chart drops to zero. I need it to calculate a value as
soon as someone enters a value in B3, otherwise, it should treat it
exactly as if it were blank. Any suggestions wil be eagerly tested.

Mac

"MacPadana" wrote:

Perfect solution: filter, copy, paste. Thanks, Fred and everyone
else.

Mac

"Fred Smith" wrote:

I see a couple of options.

1. Create a range which has just the cells greater than 70. For
example, filter out the cells less than 70, copy that range, and
then do the statistics on the new range.

2. Change your statistical calculations to exclude values below 70.
For example, to calculate the mean of all the values in column C
greater than 70, you can use:
=SUMIF(C:C,"=70")/COUNTIF(C:C,"=70")

As statistics aren't my strong suit, I won't be able to help you on
all the formulas. However, there's lots of people in this group who
can. Just post another question like "How do I calculate the
standard deviation of column C, excluding values below 70?". When
you post, make sure you identify what version of Excel you are
using, because it will make a difference in the functions available.

Regards,
Fred

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in
Column C that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that
populated I want to use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis
tool to get Mean, Median, Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon
as there is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the
new column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If
there is an easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that
too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank
cells. Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help
you. Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get
help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says
"Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

"MacPadana" ezt írta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

Thanks David,

That works. I now get #N/A when ther is nothing in B3 but I can hide that
with Conditional Formatting. My graph looks exactly the way I was hoping it
would. Great reply.

Thanks again,

Mac

"David Biddulph" wrote:

Change =IF(B30,(C3/B3),"") to =IF(B30,C3/B3,NA())

Note that you are rejecting negative values of B3. If you are merely trying
to deal with blank in B3, or to avoid a divide by zero, you might prefer
=IF(B3<0,C3/B3,NA())
--
David Biddulph


MacPadana wrote:
Sorry to have to revisit this one. Now I have a range of cells I need
to include in a chart. As long as the cells are blank, the line on
the graph stops, which is what I want. However, if I put in the
formula =IF(B30,(C3/B3),""), Excell interprates "" as zero and the
line on my chart drops to zero. I need it to calculate a value as
soon as someone enters a value in B3, otherwise, it should treat it
exactly as if it were blank. Any suggestions wil be eagerly tested.

Mac

"MacPadana" wrote:

Perfect solution: filter, copy, paste. Thanks, Fred and everyone
else.

Mac

"Fred Smith" wrote:

I see a couple of options.

1. Create a range which has just the cells greater than 70. For
example, filter out the cells less than 70, copy that range, and
then do the statistics on the new range.

2. Change your statistical calculations to exclude values below 70.
For example, to calculate the mean of all the values in column C
greater than 70, you can use:
=SUMIF(C:C,"=70")/COUNTIF(C:C,"=70")

As statistics aren't my strong suit, I won't be able to help you on
all the formulas. However, there's lots of people in this group who
can. Just post another question like "How do I calculate the
standard deviation of column C, excluding values below 70?". When
you post, make sure you identify what version of Excel you are
using, because it will make a difference in the functions available.

Regards,
Fred

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
This is the formula I am using:
=IF(C9=70,C9,"")

I want to populate the cells in a column with only the values in
Column C that are greater than or equal to 70. Once I have that
populated I want to use the Descriptive Statistics, Data Analysis
tool to get Mean, Median, Mode
, Standard Deviation etc. on the data in the new column. As soon
as there is
a cell in column C below 70, though, whatever is returned in the
new column
prevents Excel from being able to calculate the statistics. If
there is an easier way to go about it, I'd be happy to hear that
too.

Thanks

"Fred Smith" wrote:

It looks like your "discriptive statistics" don't like blank
cells. Explain
what discriptive statistics are and someone will be sure to help
you. Posting the formulas you are using is the best way to get
help.

Regards,
Fred.

"MacPadana" wrote in message
...
That's what I thought at first but when I try to run discriptive
statistics
on a range of cells that includes that, I get a message that says
"Input
range contains non-numeric data". Any other Ideas?

"Stefi" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(condition,"",result_if false)

Regards,
Stefi

"MacPadana" ezt Ã*rta:

Can an "IF" formula return a blank cell, not a zero?

Glad it worked for you.
--
David Biddulph

MacPadana wrote:
Thanks David,

That works. I now get #N/A when ther is nothing in B3 but I can hide
that with Conditional Formatting. My graph looks exactly the way I
was hoping it would. Great reply.

Thanks again,

Mac

"David Biddulph" wrote:

Change =IF(B30,(C3/B3),"") to =IF(B30,C3/B3,NA())

Note that you are rejecting negative values of B3. If you are
merely trying to deal with blank in B3, or to avoid a divide by
zero, you might prefer =IF(B3<0,C3/B3,NA())
--
David Biddulph


MacPadana wrote:
Sorry to have to revisit this one. Now I have a range of cells I
need to include in a chart. As long as the cells are blank, the
line on the graph stops, which is what I want. However, if I put in
the formula =IF(B30,(C3/B3),""), Excell interprates "" as zero and
the line on my chart drops to zero. I need it to calculate a value
as soon as someone enters a value in B3, otherwise, it should treat
it exactly as if it were blank. Any suggestions wil be eagerly
tested.
....