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IF function which can find a blank cell
Hi all,
I have a spreadsheet like the following: heading 1 heading 2 heading 3 213 212 24 213 7 214 215 216 12 What I need is a formula which can look into cell b2, and if it finds a blank cell, return the value in cell A2, if it finds a value in cell B2 then return that value. How do I ask the if function to look for a blank cell? Thanks for youe help. Owl37 |
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IF function which can find a blank cell
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Try: =IF(ISBLANK(B2),A2,B2) -- Two heads are better than one! Email: subst1tut3 numb3rs for l3tt3rs... "owl37" wrote: Hi all, I have a spreadsheet like the following: heading 1 heading 2 heading 3 213 212 24 213 7 214 215 216 12 What I need is a formula which can look into cell b2, and if it finds a blank cell, return the value in cell A2, if it finds a value in cell B2 then return that value. How do I ask the if function to look for a blank cell? Thanks for youe help. Owl37 |
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IF function which can find a blank cell
Try this in C2:
=IF(B2="",A2,B2) then copy the formula down. Hope this helps. Pete owl37 wrote: Hi all, I have a spreadsheet like the following: heading 1 heading 2 heading 3 213 212 24 213 7 214 215 216 12 What I need is a formula which can look into cell b2, and if it finds a blank cell, return the value in cell A2, if it finds a value in cell B2 then return that value. How do I ask the if function to look for a blank cell? Thanks for youe help. Owl37 |
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IF function which can find a blank cell
Try this in C2, and copy down as needed:
=A2*(B2="")+B2 -- HTH, RD ================================================== === Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ================================================== === "owl37" wrote in message ... Hi all, I have a spreadsheet like the following: heading 1 heading 2 heading 3 213 212 24 213 7 214 215 216 12 What I need is a formula which can look into cell b2, and if it finds a blank cell, return the value in cell A2, if it finds a value in cell B2 then return that value. How do I ask the if function to look for a blank cell? Thanks for youe help. Owl37 |
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IF function which can find a blank cell
Hi Jon,
You were right, That has worked perfectly, thank you so much. "Jon von der Heyden" wrote: Hi Try: =IF(ISBLANK(B2),A2,B2) -- Two heads are better than one! Email: subst1tut3 numb3rs for l3tt3rs... "owl37" wrote: Hi all, I have a spreadsheet like the following: heading 1 heading 2 heading 3 213 212 24 213 7 214 215 216 12 What I need is a formula which can look into cell b2, and if it finds a blank cell, return the value in cell A2, if it finds a value in cell B2 then return that value. How do I ask the if function to look for a blank cell? Thanks for youe help. Owl37 |
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IF function which can find a blank cell
owl37 wrote: Hi all, I have a spreadsheet like the following: heading 1 heading 2 heading 3 213 212 24 213 7 214 215 216 12 What I need is a formula which can look into cell b2, and if it finds a blank cell, return the value in cell A2, if it finds a value in cell B2 then return that value. How do I ask the if function to look for a blank cell? Thanks for youe help. Owl37 There are two different types of "blank" that you need to consider. Is the cell truly blank (ie. nothing there) or is there a formula that returns blank. If you want to consider the second case or both cases you could say: =IF(B2="",A2,B2) If you are looking for cells that only consider the first case: =IF(ISBLANK(B2),A2,B2) Edward |
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