IF statement how to leave cell blank if condition is false does not work

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I would like to write an IF statement  where the cell is left blank if the condition is FALSE  Note that  if the following formula is entered in C1  for which the condition is false  for example     IF A1 1 B1       and if C1 is tested for being blank or not using  ISBLANK C1   this would return FALSE  even if C1 seems to be blank  This means that the  IF A1 1 B1     formula does not technically leave the cells blank if the condition is not met   Any thoughts as to a way of achieving that  Thanks

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Try this instead   IF ISBLANK C1  TRUE  TRIM C1         This will return true for cells that are either truly blank  or contain nothing but white space   See this post for a few other options   edit  To reflect the comments and what you ended up doing   Instead of evaluating to    enter another value such as  deleteme  and then search for  deleteme  instead of blanks    IF ISBLANK C1  TRUE  TRIM C1   deleteme

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Here is what I do   IF OR ISBLANK AH38  AH38        IF AI38 0 0 AH38 AI38     Use the OR condition OR ISBLANK cell   cell

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If you want to use a phenomenical  with a formula in it  blank cell to make an arithmetic mathematical operation  all you have to do is use this formula    N C1    assuming C1 is a  blank  cell

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The formula in C1   IF A1 1 B1       is either giving an answer of     which isn t treated as blank  or the contents of B1   If you want the formula in D1 to show TRUE if C1 is    and FALSE if C1 has something else in then use the formula   IF C2    TRUE FALSE    instead of ISBLANK

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This shall work  modification on above  workaround  not formula   Modify your original formula   IF A1 1 B1  filler    Put filter on spreadsheet  choose only  filler  in column B  highlight all the cells with  filler  in them  hit delete  remove filter

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I ve found this workaround seems to do the trick   Modify your original formula    IF A1 1 B1  filler     Then select the column  search and replace  filler  with nothing   The cells you want to be blank empty are actually empty and if you test with  ISBLANK  it will return TRUE   Not the most elegant  but it s quick and it works

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I think all you need to do is to set the value of NOT TRUE condition to make it show any error then you filter the errors with IFNA     Here is what your formula should look like  ifna IF A1 1 B1 NA      Here is a sheet that returns blanks from if condition    https   docs google com spreadsheets d 15kWd7oPWQmGgYD PLz9YpIldwnKWoXPHtHQAT3ulqVc edit usp sharing

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I wanted to add that there is another possibility - to use the function na     e g   if a2   5  good  na      This will fill the cell with  N A and if you chart the column  the data won t be graphed  I know it isn t  blank  as such  but it s another possibility if you have blank strings in your data and    is a valid option   Also  count a a  will not count cells which have been set to n a by doing this

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You could try this    IF A1 1 B1 TRIM         If you put this formula in cell C1  then you could test if this cell is blank in another cells   ISBLANK C1   You should see TRUE  I ve tried on Microsoft Excel 2013  Hope this helps

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This should should work    IF A1 1  B1   The 3rd argument stating the value of the cell if the condition is not met is optional

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Instead of using     use 0  Then use conditional formating to color 0 to the backgrounds color  so that it appears blank   Since blank cells and 0 will have the same behavior in most situations  this may solve the issue

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The easiest solution is to use conditional formatting if the IF Statement comes back false to change the font of the results cell to whatever color background is   Yes  technically the cell isn t blank  but you won t be able to see it s contents

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Unfortunately  there is no formula way to result in a truly blank cell     is the best formulas can offer   I dislike ISBLANK because it will not see cells that only have    as blanks   Instead I prefer COUNTBLANK  which will count    as blank  so basically  COUNTBLANK C1  gt 0 means that C1 is blank or has      If you need to remove blank cells in a column  I would recommend filtering on the column for blanks  then selecting the resulting cells and pressing Del   After which you can remove the filter

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To Validate data in column A for Blanks   Step 1  Step 1  B1 isblank A1   Step 2  Drag the formula for the entire column say B1 B100  This returns Ture or False from B1 to B100 depending on the data in column A  Step 3  CTRL A  Selct all    CTRL C  Copy All    CRTL V  Paste all as values   Step4  Ctrl F   Find and replace function Find  False   Replace  leave this blank field    Find and Replace ALL  There you go Dude

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You can do something like this to show blank space    IF AND  E2-D2  gt 0  TRUE E2-D2        Inside if before first comma is condition then result and return value if true and last in value as blank if condition is false

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