Both D2 and F2 contain formulas that rely on inputted values in other cells. In a third cell (G2), I have a formula that utilizes both D2 and F2. I get accurate results just fine. However, using the formula below, when either D2 or F2 has no value the third cell says "#VALUE!" when I would prefer it to stay blank.
How do I fix that? Neither D2 or F2 are blank because they contain formulas, so I cannot use the ISBLANK condition. And my formula is not fixing it:
=IF(OR(D2=0,F2=0),"",IF(F2>D2,F2*2,F2))
Can anyone help me out?
They don't really return no value - if they contain formulas then they return something. Whatever that something is apparently not interpreted as equal to zero, as blanks are.
You could use:
=IF(AND(ISNUMBER(D2),ISNUMBER(F2)),IF(F2>D2,F2*2,F2),"")
Or simply:
=IFERROR(IF(F2>D2,F2*2,F2),"")
Note that this last will return the value of F2 if F2 is a number but whatever is in D2 is text, since Excel can compare text and numbers, and considers text to be greater. But, you say that you get an error when either has "no value", in which case this will work as expected.
Try:
=IF(D2=0,"",IF(E2=0,"",IF(F2>D2,F2*2,F2)))
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I found something confusing in Microsoft Excel.
I fill Cell A1, A2, A3, A4 with the same number 1,
then I enter the formula = A1 = A2 = A3 = A4 on cell A5,
why do I get FALSE results?
Is there a way to find out the values of 4 cells are the same or different?
If all you are using is these numbers you could check for the standard deviation. If it's 0 then all values are equal:
=STDEV.P(A1:A4)
So a check for equality could look like:
=IF(STDEV.P(A1:A4),"Different","Equal)
You can compare the range with the first cell, include it in the AND function and enter it as an array formula.
It will process both text and numeric values.
=AND(A1:A4=A1)
Array formula after editing is confirmed by pressing ctrl + shift + enter
You can use COUNTIF.
This is how it works in this example:
The COUNTIF returns a count of any cells that do not contain "1" which is compared to zero. If the count is zero, the formula returns TRUE. If the count is anything but zero, the formula returns FALSE.
You can apply that to any value you want to compare. Just place it before the "<>" in the formula.
This also works for "strings".
I have the following formula in cell R3. =If(Isblank(E3),"",(E3)+365. This formula gives me the date I am looking for if I have a date entered in cell E3. However cell E3 does not always have a date in it. When there is no date in cell E3 I get #Value in cell R3. Is there a way to leave R3 blank if no date entered in E3.
How about:
=IF(E3="","",E3+365)
Alternately you could wrap your entire formula within an IFERROR() function:
=IFERROR(IF(ISBLANK(E3), "", E3+365), "")
The advantage of this (or disadvantage depending on which way you look at it) is that it will also mitigate any other errors you might encounter from incorrect data types being placed into cell E3, such as #DIV/0, etc.
I'am trying to create a conditional formatting which formats only cell below, but only if cell above and cell below both has number in them (negative or positive).
Now i got this:
=ISNUMBER(OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(); COLUMN()));-1;0))
This formats the cell below if the cell above has a anything. It does not respect the condition where the cell below also must have a number.
Could somebody help me out here? I am realy stuck :)
EDIT:
So now i tried this:
=AND(ISNUMBER(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW();COLUMN()))); ISNUMBER(OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW();COLUMN()));-1;0)))
But no luck whith this one either.
Just to clarify. This formula should run on $A$3:$BB$100
So for example if:
A5 = 10 (or any positive or negative number)
A6 = 10 (or any positive or negative number)
A6 should be formatet.
But if:
A5 = 10 (or any positive or negative number)
A6 = EMPTY
No formating should happen.
Hope this clarify what i'am trying to do :)
=AND(ISNUMBER(A5),ISNUMBER(A6)) This formula will also bypass formatting for A6 as well if both cells are empty. I assume that's what you want, as there's no value within either to format.
I see why we are getting different results with the formula. Conditional formatting is applied relative to the active cell when applied. Start with cell A2 as the first cell highlighted, (A2:A100),and then use this formula =AND(ISNUMBER(A2),ISNUMBER(A1)).Cell A2 should be the first active cell within the range of applied formatted cells.
I'm trying to write a simple formula to check whether either 1 or both cells are blank and, if so, leave the resulting cell blank. I want the resulting cell to only display a calculation if both cells are filled in.
I've got this do far though it doesn't work as I wanted: =IF(OR(C4<>"",B4<>""),A4-C4,"")
b4 has a date and c4 has a numeric value (4). the formulate is in d4. I want to check if b4 or c4 are blank and, if so, leave d4 blank too, else take c4 from a4 (14 as of now).
It should work:
=IF(ISBLANK(C4);"";IF(ISBLANK(D4);"";A4-C4))
It checks if C4 is a blank cell, if not then checks if D4 is blank, if not then does the math.
I recommend using ISBLANK to check for blank cells.
Formula for your D4:
=IF(OR(ISBLANK(B4), ISBLANK(C4)),,A4-C4)
Just try this formula
=IF(AND(C4<>"",B4<>""),A4-C4,"")
Also, I used =IF(A2&B2="",TRUE VALUE, FALSE VALUE) which worked great
I have an excel sheet which has three columns. These three columns can have some value or be blank. I have to update a fourth column based on the entries in these three columns. The criteria for updating the fourth column is as follows:
If two or more columns have same value then fourth column will have
this same value.
If all three values are different then fourth column will have first
non blank value.
If there is only one non blank value then fourth column will have
that non blank value.
I'm unable to figure out what should be the formula in fourth column for this criteria.
Here is an example
=IFERROR(INDEX(A2:C2,,MODE(MATCH(A2:C2,A2:C2, 0))), IF(A2="", IF(B2="", C2, B2), A2))
Just paste it to D2 and drag down.
To explain it, it looks for the MODE (Most common value) of everything in the range A2:C2.
MODE(MATCH(A2:C2, A2:C2, 0))
This would return the first position in which the most common value returns, in this case we use the INDEX function and get the value at the given index, in the range A2:C2.
INDEX(A2:C2,,MODE(MATCH(A2:C2,A2:C2, 0)))
This part so far is slightly based on code from here
Now this will give us the letter, but only if one letter is more common than the others, if they all have different values, then it'll return an error. In this case, we use the IFERROR function which, if there is an error in it's first argument, will instead calculate the second argument. So if there isn't a match, then we want to just get the first non blank cell.
So check if A2 is blank, if it is check if B2 is blank, if it is, use the cell value in C2, otherwise use the cell value in B2, but if A2 is not blank, use the value in A2.
IF(A2="", IF(B2="", C2, B2), A2))
With a little bit of working around, you could probably turn the above statement into something that's a little more expandable (google first non-blank value in row or something like that).
Hope this helps.
Using your example, in cell D2 and copied down:
=IF(COUNTA(A2:C2)=0,"",IF(MAX(INDEX(COUNTIF(A2:C2,A2:C2),))>1,INDEX(A2:C2,MATCH(MAX(INDEX(COUNTIF(A2:C2,A2:C2),)),INDEX(COUNTIF(A2:C2,A2:C2),),0)),INDEX(A2:C2,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX(A2:C2<>"",),0))))