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I have a column in which some of the cells have input values, and some don't.

I need to have someway of having excel do the following:

If F1 has a value, do nothing
If F1 is blank, insert the value in cell E1.

However, AI am not sure how to do this without "typing" over the values
currently in column F

Any assistance would be great.
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Peo Sjoblom
 
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It's better that you continue in the original thread you started


in E1 put

=IF(F1="",F1,"")

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Peo Sjoblom



"jmcclain" wrote in message
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I have a column in which some of the cells have input values, and some

don't.

I need to have someway of having excel do the following:

If F1 has a value, do nothing
If F1 is blank, insert the value in cell E1.

However, AI am not sure how to do this without "typing" over the values
currently in column F

Any assistance would be great.



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Thanks - however, column E has values in all cells and I need to maintain
them. My goal is to simply copy the value in E1 iinto F1 if there is not
value in F1.

Thanks

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

It's better that you continue in the original thread you started


in E1 put

=IF(F1="",F1,"")

--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"jmcclain" wrote in message
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I have a column in which some of the cells have input values, and some

don't.

I need to have someway of having excel do the following:

If F1 has a value, do nothing
If F1 is blank, insert the value in cell E1.

However, AI am not sure how to do this without "typing" over the values
currently in column F

Any assistance would be great.




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Peo Sjoblom
 
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Then it is not possible unless you use event macros

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/events.htm

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Peo Sjoblom

"jmcclain" wrote in message
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Thanks - however, column E has values in all cells and I need to maintain
them. My goal is to simply copy the value in E1 iinto F1 if there is not
value in F1.

Thanks

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

It's better that you continue in the original thread you started


in E1 put

=IF(F1="",F1,"")

--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



"jmcclain" wrote in message
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I have a column in which some of the cells have input values, and some

don't.

I need to have someway of having excel do the following:

If F1 has a value, do nothing
If F1 is blank, insert the value in cell E1.

However, AI am not sure how to do this without "typing" over the

values
currently in column F

Any assistance would be great.






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Or use another column
=if(F1="",E1,F1)
then copy the column and paste values in column F
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Then it is not possible unless you use event macros

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/events.htm

--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

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Thanks - however, column E has values in all cells and

I need to maintain
them. My goal is to simply copy the value in E1 iinto

F1 if there is not
value in F1.

Thanks

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

It's better that you continue in the original thread

you started


in E1 put

=IF(F1="",F1,"")

--

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom



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...
I have a column in which some of the cells have

input values, and some
don't.

I need to have someway of having excel do the

following:

If F1 has a value, do nothing
If F1 is blank, insert the value in cell E1.

However, AI am not sure how to do this

without "typing" over the
values
currently in column F

Any assistance would be great.





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Arvi Laanemets
 
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Hi

It's possible stepwise.

Into some free column enter formulas like
=IF(F1="",F1,E1)
Copy the range with formulas, and Paste Special as values into column F (you
overwrite your old data)
Delete formulas you entered before.


Arvi Laanemets


"jmcclain" wrote in message
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I have a column in which some of the cells have input values, and some

don't.

I need to have someway of having excel do the following:

If F1 has a value, do nothing
If F1 is blank, insert the value in cell E1.

However, AI am not sure how to do this without "typing" over the values
currently in column F

Any assistance would be great.



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