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Old 07-10-2014, 11:54 AM
Bobby Bobby is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2007
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Originally Posted by BobBridges View Post
I just checked to be sure, and, as you might expect, when I have nothing in X99, then X99>0 evaluates as false. So my next theory is that there's something in there already. I just discovered (thanks to your question) that a space is actually considered to be >0. So I'm thinking H5 has a space in it, or more than one.

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Originally Posted by macropod View Post
Your first formula outputs a number or null into H5. A null is not the same as no data and has a non-zero value. Accordingly, your subsequent formula needs to test for nulls (i.e. "") as well.
Both quite right, nulls do appear to have 0 length though so =IF(LEN(H5)>0 works fine.
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