I could have misunderstood the OP's objective, which I was
guessing was simply to display "nil" center aligned in his
formula cell if A1 is <=0 or otherwise A2.

I appreciate custom formats do not change text formatting,
possibly I should have added " of 'nil' which should not
be regarded as text if in a custom format" to the last
sentence of my post. However I think what I proposed
would achieve something close to his objective, if indeed
I correctly understood it.

If so, with a little playing around the OP could display
his "nil", more or less center aligned, with no code and
always updated on calculation.

Regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
Just a thought:
Custom number formats
a) don't do much for text
b) don't affect alignment

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Paul Stevens"
wrote in message
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Have you tried custom formats.
You can format for individually for +ve ; -ve ; zero
(separated with semicolons).

You could change your formula to if(a10,a2,0). Custom
format for +ve numbers (eg General or whatever), then
after the second semicolon type "nil " with some
spaces.
Help Custom formats might give more options for
control
of alignment.

Regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
In a cell the formula says =if(a10,a2,"nil"). But the
problem is aligning right for numbers and Center for
text. In early versions you could precede with Single
quote or ^ or dbl quote for appropriate alignment.
I'm just a beginner in programming. Another problem is
thelarge number of data so I have to move progressively
from one cell to another with the query. My knowledge
of
VBA gets me stuck after:

With Selection
For each Cell

Basically I can only stepover a Macro and make changes.
Is there any other way out without VBA?
Please help.


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