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One of my students asked an interesting question yesterday in Excel.
We were working on IF statements and if a cell had a student's name in it, the IF statement proceeded to do the FALSE Result, if not, it did the TRUE Result. =if(A1="","student missed class","student attended class") I explained that if a student hit the space bar and entered "a space", this space would be considered something and the IF statement would produce the FALSE Result of "student attended class". Student's question (and mine): Is there a way to prevent someone from entering "a space" in the cell? Even though it looks blank, the space will be there causing the IF statement to produced "the wrong" result. Hope this makes sense. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Jugglertwo |
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