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Good morning. I need professional help.

I would like to display a symbol, rather than a alphameric character, as the
result of an IF statement.

Something like:

=IF(A1="Y", (box with X in it), (box with no X in it))

I've tried using CHAR inside the IF statement, but just get an alphameric
character. I think I specified CHAR(113) for the box with no X, and got a
'q'.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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If you format the cell with wingdings fonts you will get a square using char
113
if you want a check mark in a square use wingdings and char(252)


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Good morning. I need professional help.

I would like to display a symbol, rather than a alphameric character, as
the
result of an IF statement.

Something like:

=IF(A1="Y", (box with X in it), (box with no X in it))

I've tried using CHAR inside the IF statement, but just get an alphameric
character. I think I specified CHAR(113) for the box with no X, and got a
'q'.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.




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Change the font of the cell containing your formula to "WingDings"!

Then ALSO ... Char(120) will display a box with an "X".
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Good morning. I need professional help.

I would like to display a symbol, rather than a alphameric character, as the
result of an IF statement.

Something like:

=IF(A1="Y", (box with X in it), (box with no X in it))

I've tried using CHAR inside the IF statement, but just get an alphameric
character. I think I specified CHAR(113) for the box with no X, and got a
'q'.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


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Thanks to you both!

"RagDyeR" wrote:

Change the font of the cell containing your formula to "WingDings"!

Then ALSO ... Char(120) will display a box with an "X".
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"pdberger" wrote in message
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Good morning. I need professional help.

I would like to display a symbol, rather than a alphameric character, as the
result of an IF statement.

Something like:

=IF(A1="Y", (box with X in it), (box with no X in it))

I've tried using CHAR inside the IF statement, but just get an alphameric
character. I think I specified CHAR(113) for the box with no X, and got a
'q'.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.



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