Hi Kent!
Formats can't do that.
You can format positives, negatives, zero, and text. But not AFAIK
empty cells.
By formula you might have something like:
=IF(A1="ShowZero",0,"")
The cell with this formula would have a 0 in it if A1 had the text
ShowZero. Otherwise it would appear empty.
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