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Conditional - empty cell
Hi. I must be doing something wrong ...
I want to have a conditional format when cell A1 is empty. I set: Formula is to: ="len(a1)=0" Even when the cell is empty, the formatting will not occur. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike. |
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Conditional - empty cell
Remove the quotes and see what happens.
=LEN(A1)=0 Are you sure the cell is empty...........no extra spaces? If you enter =LEN(A1) in B1 does it return a 0 Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:39:01 -0700, Mike wrote: Hi. I must be doing something wrong ... I want to have a conditional format when cell A1 is empty. I set: Formula is to: ="len(a1)=0" Even when the cell is empty, the formatting will not occur. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike. |
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Conditional - empty cell
Gord:
It was the quotes .... I removed them and it works fine. Thanks for your help. Mike. "Gord Dibben" wrote: Remove the quotes and see what happens. =LEN(A1)=0 Are you sure the cell is empty...........no extra spaces? If you enter =LEN(A1) in B1 does it return a 0 Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:39:01 -0700, Mike wrote: Hi. I must be doing something wrong ... I want to have a conditional format when cell A1 is empty. I set: Formula is to: ="len(a1)=0" Even when the cell is empty, the formatting will not occur. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike. |
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