=IF cell needs to show blank if blank
 

Hi

Don't know how to explain, but formulae is as follows:

If a number ref matches in the first sheet within cell N8 then from
sheet 1 whatever is in cell I8 should pull through to I8 in sheet2.

This is the formulae in sheet 2 cell I8

=IF([cpleger.xls]Sheet1!N8=2,[cpleger.xls]Sheet1!$I8)

I8 has to show dates, so the cell format is dd/mm

However when the date in sheet 1 is blanked out, in sheet two it shows
as 00/01

Is there a way to make it show nothing in sheet 2 if it shows nothing
in sheet 1?
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=IF cell needs to show blank if blank
 

This should work.

=IF([cpleger.xls]Sheet1!N8=2,[cpleger.xls]Sheet1!I8,"")

This will return a blank if [cpleger.xls]Sheet1!N8 does not equal 2.


HTH

Steve


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=IF cell needs to show blank if blank
 

Actually, I think this is what you were looking for.

=IF(AND([cpleger.xls]Sheet1!N8=2,Sheet1!I8<""),[cpleger.xls]Sheet1!I8,"")

This is where if Sheet1!N8 = 2 and Sheet1!I8 is not blank it will
return the date in Sheet1!I8. If Sheet1!N8 =2 and Sheet1!I8 is blank,
it will return blank.

Does that help?

Steve


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=IF cell needs to show blank if blank
 

Hi,
it works if i press space bar to delete information but not if i press
delete key. still shows as 00/01. As i need to highlight several to
hundreds of cells space bar is not an option. any other ideas? thanks
for your quick replies.

Could it be because i have formatted the column to show as a date?

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=IF cell needs to show blank if blank
 

I think SteveG had a typo in his suggested formula:

=IF(AND([cpleger.xls]Sheet1!N8=2,Sheet1!I8<""),[cpleger.xls]Sheet1!I8,"")

should be:

=IF(AND([cpleger.xls]Sheet1!N8=2,[cpleger.xls]Sheet1!I8<""),
[cpleger.xls]Sheet1!I8,"")

(all one cell)

He was pointing at sheet1!i8 of the current workbook--not in cpleger.xls.

If that didn't help, you should post the formula you're using.

Boethius1 wrote:

Hi,
it works if i press space bar to delete information but not if i press
delete key. still shows as 00/01. As i need to highlight several to
hundreds of cells space bar is not an option. any other ideas? thanks
for your quick replies.

Could it be because i have formatted the column to show as a date?

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=IF cell needs to show blank if blank
 

Thank you both very much, it does now work exactly as i wanted!!
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