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September 27, 2004

Printing only non-zero values

Sometimes it may be desirable to filter out "0" return values from functions and formulas to avoid messy and cluttered spreadsheets.


A simple and effective way to do this is to use the IF function as is illustrated in the example below.

For cells D7 and D11, we do not get a "0" - which is the desired effect.

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In fact, the general form of the IF function that achieves this effect is.. =IF([formula];[formula];"")

Posted by Dave at September 27, 2004 03:24 AM

Comments

You can also do this in "Format Cells", with the
following "user defined" format

0;0;""

or for something more complicated .. a dollar amount (with -ve in Red)

[>0][$$-409]#,##0.00;[

Posted by: Michael Katzmann at October 31, 2004 03:50 AM

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