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Blank cells

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Reply Fri 7 Nov 2008, 16:37Delegate Robin said...

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Blank cells

How can i tell formulas to ignore blank cells and/ or cells that say N/A

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Reply Fri 21 Nov 2008, 16:48Trainer Amanda said...

RE: blank cells

Hi Robin

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

This would most likely be done by creating a IF function, that tells Excel to use your formula if there is a value greater than 0 in the cell, but to leave the cell blank if there is a blank cell or an N/A error.

If you have a specific example, this would help me to be able to advise further.

Kind regards
Amanda

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