How do you get a formula that contains empty cells to ingnore the formula and
return a value of 0 (zero)

Say we are adding A1 thru A10, but if any are blank, report 0 instead:

=IF(COUNTBLANK(A1:A10)0,0,SUM(A1:A10))

So you will see 0 until all the data is filled in.
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"chrisnsmith" wrote:

How do you get a formula that contains empty cells to ingnore the formula and
return a value of 0 (zero)

Hi,

This really depends on the formula. In general cells that are empty are
treated as 0. For example =SUM(A1:A10) returns 0 if all the cells are empty.
On the other hand

=AVERAGE(A1:A10)

returns DIV/0 if all the cells are empty. In that case you could use
=AVERAGEIF(A1:A10,"<") in 2007
or in 2003
IF(COUNT(A1:A10)0,AVERAGE(A1:A10),0)

We need to see your formula.

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"chrisnsmith" wrote:

How do you get a formula that contains empty cells to ingnore the formula and
return a value of 0 (zero)