P Paul C Mar 12, 2010 #2 In Excel 2007 use the IFERROR IFERROR(A1+b1,"You have an error") in Excel 2003 IFERROR is not available, but you can use ISERROR IF(ISERROR(A1+B1),"You have an error",A1+B1) If you really want to get specific and only trigger on #VALUE and not all errors check out the ERROR.TYPE function in help
In Excel 2007 use the IFERROR IFERROR(A1+b1,"You have an error") in Excel 2003 IFERROR is not available, but you can use ISERROR IF(ISERROR(A1+B1),"You have an error",A1+B1) If you really want to get specific and only trigger on #VALUE and not all errors check out the ERROR.TYPE function in help