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Hi
I am inputting dates as text into a column, that are called for in another
column.
Okay when the first first column holds dates, but when the cell is empty,
zero is returned.

How can I stop zeros filling up my column?

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=if(a1="","",a1)


Sapper wrote:

Hi
I am inputting dates as text into a column, that are called for in another
column.
Okay when the first first column holds dates, but when the cell is empty,
zero is returned.

How can I stop zeros filling up my column?

thankyou


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Much appreciated

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=if(a1="","",a1)


Sapper wrote:

Hi
I am inputting dates as text into a column, that are called for in another
column.
Okay when the first first column holds dates, but when the cell is empty,
zero is returned.

How can I stop zeros filling up my column?

thankyou


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