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Default Checks whether a value is text or number

Try this

=IF(ISTEXT(A1),"True",IF(ISNUMBER(A1),"False","Its not a number or text"))

"robertc" wrote:

I want to make a function which returns a value if an entry is text and
another value if the entry is a number.

For example:

If A1=text, "True", If A1=number, "False

 
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