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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone.
Is it possible to delete a cell's VALUE without deleting (or "Clearing") the
cell's formula? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone.
Yes: multiply by zero.
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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone.
Make your formula return what looks like blank when you don't need it:
=Sheet1!A1+sheet1!b99 may become =if(sheet1!a1+sheet1!b99=0,"",sheet1!a1+sheet1!b99 ) But once you put in a formula, it's gonna have to evaluate to something... MrQuick wrote: Is it possible to delete a cell's VALUE without deleting (or "Clearing") the cell's formula? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc -- Dave Peterson |
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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone.
F5SpecialConstants. Uncheck/check what you want to delete and OK
EditClear Contents. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:36:04 -0800, "MrQuick" wrote: Is it possible to delete a cell's VALUE without deleting (or "Clearing") the cell's formula? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone
~ In the "Go To Special" dialog box, I clicked the empty circle w/"Constants"
next to it. ~ "Formulas" remained unselected. ~ The 4 boxes sub to "Formulas" became operative and were all checked: they are... Numbers/Text/Logicals/Errors. ~ What boxes do I UNCHECK so as to allow me to delete a cell's value but leave the formula alone after "OK" and then clicking EditClear Contents ~ Also, when should I select the cell to be operated on? Before hitting F5...? Before EditClear Contents? PS: My idea is for the "Edit" menu have a "Delete Special" or something like that so users can decide do delete everything (values, formula, formatting) or any one or two of the 3 characteristics of a particular cell. Unfortunately MS only allows upto 10 or so words per suggestion which is a little skimpy if you ask me. Maybe what I'm asking violates some law of physics. Maybe the programming language necessary for accomplishment of my idea has not been invented. "Gord Dibben" wrote: F5SpecialConstants. Uncheck/check what you want to delete and OK EditClear Contents. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:36:04 -0800, "MrQuick" wrote: Is it possible to delete a cell's VALUE without deleting (or "Clearing") the cell's formula? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone.
I don't understand what purpose such a thing would serve. If I don't
want a value in a cell, I do as Dave has suggested by writing my formula to return nothing if the cell should look blank. Or delete the formula. If you don't want to see the value returned by a formula, I suppose you could use the same color for the cell text and cell background. |
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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone
1. Select all cells first.
2. F5SpecialConstants where you will have the four options to check or uncheck. Usually you would uncheck Text because you want to keep Titles etc. 3. Hit OK which will select cells with data from which your formulas derive their values. EditDelete and your data will be cleared, leaving the formulas intact but with no values. Experiment a bit until you get the correct combination. Always best to do this on a copy of the sheet. Gord On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:40:03 -0800, "MrQuick" wrote: ~ In the "Go To Special" dialog box, I clicked the empty circle w/"Constants" next to it. ~ "Formulas" remained unselected. ~ The 4 boxes sub to "Formulas" became operative and were all checked: they are... Numbers/Text/Logicals/Errors. ~ What boxes do I UNCHECK so as to allow me to delete a cell's value but leave the formula alone after "OK" and then clicking EditClear Contents ~ Also, when should I select the cell to be operated on? Before hitting F5...? Before EditClear Contents? PS: My idea is for the "Edit" menu have a "Delete Special" or something like that so users can decide do delete everything (values, formula, formatting) or any one or two of the 3 characteristics of a particular cell. Unfortunately MS only allows upto 10 or so words per suggestion which is a little skimpy if you ask me. Maybe what I'm asking violates some law of physics. Maybe the programming language necessary for accomplishment of my idea has not been invented. "Gord Dibben" wrote: F5SpecialConstants. Uncheck/check what you want to delete and OK EditClear Contents. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:36:04 -0800, "MrQuick" wrote: Is it possible to delete a cell's VALUE without deleting (or "Clearing") the cell's formula? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Excel should allow delete cell's value but leave formula alone
To be more precise, the formulae are left intact but their cells will
display whatever values are derived by operating on empty cells. This leads to the possibility of the cells showing zeros (and zero is a value) or error messages such as '#DIV/0!' or '#VALUE!'. |
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