If A1 is zero, A2 is blank

[Guest]

I am trying to make an adjacent cell blank if the related cell is zero. I
have tried conditional formatting and IF formatting, but I still can't get it
to work. Can someone tell me how to do this?

 

[KL]

- if blank means EMPTY then it can't be achieved by formulas as it literally means EMPTY - no constants, no formulas (you'll need
macros for that)
- if blank means STRING OF ZERO LENGTH ("") then you can try the following formula in [A2]: =IF(A1=0,"",MyAlternative)
the string of 0 length looks like blank, but technically is not blank and behaves differently in most situations (not in all
though).

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[Beege]

- if blank means EMPTY then it can't be achieved by formulas as it
literally means EMPTY - no constants, no formulas (you'll need macros
for that)
- if blank means STRING OF ZERO LENGTH ("") then you can try the
following formula in [A2]: =IF(A1=0,"",MyAlternative)
the string of 0 length looks like blank, but technically is not blank
and behaves differently in most situations (not in all though).

Even a vacuum takes up space, no?

Beege

 

[Herbert Seidenberg]

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