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Default Can blank cells created using empty Double-Quotes not be empty??

Hello there,

I have a spreadsheet into which I load daily data using a macro. There is
data for about 50% of the codes each day.
First, I test whether there are any new codes, and add those to the bottom
of my list.
Then I load the data using the VLOOKUP simplified as follows-

= if(ISERROR(<VLOOKUP formula),"",(<VLOOKUP formula)
NOTE:- There is no space between the two double-quotes.

Then - "Copy" - "Paste Special-Values" - to remove the formulas.

Then I was playing around and noticed that-

-"Edit" -"Go To..." -"Special" -"Blanks"

only selected the earlier empty cells for new codes added, but not for old
codes with empty cells.

I changed the macro to ".ClearContents" for all empty cells created by the
VLOOKUP formula above.

The result was that I was able to select all blanks using the "Go
To..."-etc- "Blanks" command shown above.
More astonishingly my file size reduced from 8 megabytes to 4 megabytes.

This is the reason for my question - "Can blank cells created using empty
Double-Quotes not be empty?"

regards,

JohnI



 
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