Hi Folks -

This is a variation on "returning a blank cell from a function", which
I understand you can't do.

I'm analyzing several thousand calculated cells using the Histogram
Tool from the Analysis pack. I need to exclude several hundred of
those cells from the histogram since there were input data dropouts at
those points.

I can test for dropouts by doing IF(ISBLANK() on the input data
cells. I would like to return *something* from the IF test that the
Histogram Tool will ignore... but unfortunately the Tool is quite
fussy about numeric data. I know that the Tool will ignore Blank
Cells, but there is no way to return a Blank Cell as a result of an IF
test.

Does anyone know of any value that I can return from the IF test, that
the Histogram Tool will ignore when it is doing its analysis?
"Ignore" as in skip over and not include in the resulting output
bins...

thanks,
Ed