How to Ignore Formula / Not Calculate If Cell is Blank in Excel

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In this video I demonstrate how to ignore a formula or stop calculating if a specified cell is blank or if two or more cells are blank.
In our scenario we are calculating the percentage of calls (at a call centre) that are dropped. If either the total number of calls is blank or if the number of dropped calls is blank, we don't want to perform the calculation.
There are two methods that you can use to evaluate whether a cell is blank. The first uses the ISBLANK function. This will return TRUE if the cell is empty but FALSE if it contains an empty text string.
The second method tests for an empty text string, eg =A1="". This method will return TRUE if the cell is empty or if it contains an empty text string.
You will need to decide which method works best for your scenario, but the difference between the two tests is the focus of this tutorial.
I also explain how to test more than one cell for their "emptiness" or "blankness".
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  • @unlearnbusiness
    @unlearnbusiness Жыл бұрын

    That explanation of the difference has saved me a ton of problems. Thanks for explaining things beyond just giving the formula.

  • @ryancole4908
    @ryancole4908Ай бұрын

    Found the solution to my problem in the first couple minutes, thank you for explaining things simply.

  • @IvanCortinas_ES
    @IvanCortinas_ES2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Chester for this great explanation of the ISBLANK function!

  • @EulogioEspinozaGutie
    @EulogioEspinozaGutie2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Professor. You have help me in times of need.

  • @drewbraswell2837
    @drewbraswell28372 жыл бұрын

    A great help! I appreciate your wisdom and your sharing of that wisdom!

  • @casb5492
    @casb54922 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for posting this - the IF formula is what I was looking to use in my spreadsheet

  • @heclas
    @heclas11 ай бұрын

    Exactly the video I needed. Worked out perfectly! Thanks!

  • @kayorca
    @kayorca6 ай бұрын

    This is the best video! I have watched so many trying to learn to do just this. Thank you for making this so easy to understand!

  • @tomlambi314
    @tomlambi314 Жыл бұрын

    Thank You!! Been looking everywhere for this!

  • @del256ragusa4
    @del256ragusa42 жыл бұрын

    WOW! this really helped me! Awesome job, keep up the good work!!!!

  • @cartermarsch1384
    @cartermarsch1384 Жыл бұрын

    This was super helpful. My questions were answered 1:50 into the tutorial.

  • @88JmJones
    @88JmJones Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this walkthrough! Liked and subscribed!

  • @pauln3229
    @pauln32292 жыл бұрын

    Excellent tutorial. Thank you!

  • @johnboffin476
    @johnboffin4762 ай бұрын

    Hello Sir Chester, you are a great teacher, I like your teaching. thanks for your help.

  • @Daz5002
    @Daz5002 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks really simple and clear and just what I needed many thanks.

  • @julieballantyne
    @julieballantyne3 ай бұрын

    Great video! Helped me grasp the problem I had with more than one option and a great explanation!

  • @benspeed5063
    @benspeed50632 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the vid! Really helpful.

  • @adityapuro5654
    @adityapuro565410 ай бұрын

    Hi, Chester. I spent half of the day and was not able to get rid of the #VALUE! error. Your video gave me the solution. Thanks to you, man!

  • @greaty93
    @greaty93 Жыл бұрын

    LEGEND!!! so easy to understand

  • @kevinu.k.7042
    @kevinu.k.70425 ай бұрын

    Excellent - So easy to follow - Thanks

  • @matthewdeal3402
    @matthewdeal34022 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I was looking for, ty

  • @MrHadrian71
    @MrHadrian71 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Chester! Really helpful!

  • @drewb5738
    @drewb5738 Жыл бұрын

    This was very helpful. Thanks for the info.

  • @olohitareoyakhire6755
    @olohitareoyakhire67552 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this.

  • @Jantea
    @Jantea2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!! You save me sooo much time (and hair pulling) :-)

  • @maxyusupov9508
    @maxyusupov950811 ай бұрын

    THANK YOU CHESTER!!!!! you always teach very usefull stuffs keep it up🤩👍👍👍👍

  • @xin8318
    @xin8318 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Chester, solved my problem

  • @mentalwellness_Quotes
    @mentalwellness_Quotes2 жыл бұрын

    You just helped me solved a problem with this video in try to do an analysis on the titanic ship. Thanks so much.

  • @nazifanawyal5102
    @nazifanawyal51029 ай бұрын

    you saved my life. Thanks 😭😭😭😭

  • @Abdullah_Alhathloul
    @Abdullah_Alhathloul9 күн бұрын

    Excellent

  • @amaliage1
    @amaliage110 ай бұрын

    A million thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @alimohamedahmed2328
    @alimohamedahmed23282 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @Pattythomas5
    @Pattythomas56 ай бұрын

    Than you! It worked perfectly!

  • @meataidstheft
    @meataidstheft Жыл бұрын

    🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 you just saved me so much work, thank you for this!!

  • @AngelaRodriguez-lr4jj
    @AngelaRodriguez-lr4jj11 ай бұрын

    thank you so much for this! huge help

  • @shankar2091
    @shankar20912 жыл бұрын

    Best thing on the internet

  • @mikealike5000
    @mikealike5000 Жыл бұрын

    Exactly what i needed thank you!!!

  • @ChesterTugwell

    @ChesterTugwell

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it helped!

  • @manavvlogs7337
    @manavvlogs7337 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks 🙏🙏🙏

  • @khaledshamat792
    @khaledshamat7922 жыл бұрын

    thank you sooooo much

  • @user-ny6pi8eg8d
    @user-ny6pi8eg8d Жыл бұрын

    Thank Your sir.... It is working fine for my sale order formate

  • @StevenYoutsey
    @StevenYoutsey Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much!

  • @ChesterTugwell

    @ChesterTugwell

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @user-ni3iw5rb3s
    @user-ni3iw5rb3s6 ай бұрын

    thank you sir

  • @insanity999
    @insanity9992 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Chester, you explained this so well. I actually understand it now and don't need to just copy a formula. Do you know why, or if there is a workaround to using the colon shortcut for adding a series of cell values together? Let's say, my input data is not in two cells as in your example but is in 5 adjacent cells. If I just want to add them I can use =SUM(A1:E1), but when I apply the empty text string formula, this part no longer works. To keep it simple, I only want a formula to show when the last of the five data input boxes (E1) is populated: =IF(E1="","",(A1:E1)) will return an error, so you have to use a long form of this: =IF(E1="","",(A1+B1+C1+D1+E1))

  • @chantelleyurechuk9764
    @chantelleyurechuk97642 жыл бұрын

    You're Amazing!

  • @chantelleyurechuk9764

    @chantelleyurechuk9764

    2 жыл бұрын

    I didn't even watch your whole video, had tried with ISBLANK as that seemed logical to me but was getting FALSE, as soon as I Used "" totally worked ! Great skills and explanation ! :D

  • @carsonc1272
    @carsonc1272 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @faizalmukthesar7274
    @faizalmukthesar72746 ай бұрын

    Can you please make a video on how to roundup the values along with IF functions when there are empty cells?

  • @gjgeno
    @gjgeno2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks professor! I've built an excel task generator for tasks in my sales-cycle (using a cadence I've built in column C and ignoring federal holidays I've added in column A) via the =WORKDAY function. The formula schedules due dates for upcoming tasks as soon as I enter a "first attempt date" in Column I [an example formula for one row of the sheet is =WORKDAY($I7, $C$3,$A$2:$A$14) and I'm struggling to have that formula ignored when there is no "first attempt date" filled out in column I. Any tips much appreciated!

  • @trevormcdonald2319
    @trevormcdonald2319 Жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @TheWeteyezz
    @TheWeteyezz2 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much!!! I was trying to figure out that [cell=""] part... Isnull wasnt working because the cell being referenced was formulated

  • @enricoeats
    @enricoeats2 жыл бұрын

    Hello Professor, great video! I have a problem, when I type the formula in, the cell that is supposed to ignore the formula, actually give me either True or False, but not an empty cell. I don't know if it's because I'm on a Mac version, but it's not working! :(

  • @nakedsphynxcathampshire9469
    @nakedsphynxcathampshire9469 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Chester, hope you’re ok? if I have formula working out an age which is given back to me shown in years and months by using a date of birth in a column & cell and then a formula which is using the ‘today’ function, where the date of birth cell does not yet have a data can I use one of these scenarios - built into my formula somehow - to give me a return of a blank? I’m not massively experienced so please talk to me like I’m 3! Thank you.

  • @davida6146
    @davida61462 жыл бұрын

    I kind of like the last formula you showed IF(OR( statement, but I want to return the value if the column isn't blank. For example columns A | B | C all may contain values, but only 1 of the 3 columns will contain a value per row. In column D, I'd like to return the value that isn't blank (so every row in column D has a value)... how would I do that?

  • @alexanderstewart489

    @alexanderstewart489

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would SUM(A1,B1,C1) If you know only 1 of the 3 will have data

  • @watcher4887
    @watcher48874 ай бұрын

    Sir, I have an assignment from an institute and it's really a long one, the empty cells in the sheet are filled with a hyphen because of that the formula is not ignoring the cells can you advise how to make a formula to ignore cells with a hyphen please ?

  • @nurulhaffiza26
    @nurulhaffiza26 Жыл бұрын

    Hi. I would like to ask how can i use isblank for multiple columns & combine it with max function ? Let say i have 3 columns for dates. I tried if(isblank(a2:c2),"",max(a2:c2)) but it doesnt work

  • @gymwithliv2012
    @gymwithliv20122 жыл бұрын

    Will these work over 2 cells? Sat the first cell has todays date. The next cell has a function to add a date 6 months in the future. As we get closer to the 6 month date the cell changes colour. How can I stop the conditional formatting if there is no initial date entered? Hopefully this isn't too confusing...

  • @nighthawkawandrewwilkinson37
    @nighthawkawandrewwilkinson37 Жыл бұрын

    im making a time sheet for my self to calculate hrs and over time as personal record when i use formula but when i copy the formula to the rows it showing 24 in every row even when no data is entered this is formula im using ,is there a way to hide till data is inserted =IF(D24>C24,(D24-C24),(D24-C24+1))*24

  • @anthonybrigantic664
    @anthonybrigantic664 Жыл бұрын

    how can you change the formula to show blank cells that have text? im trying to skip cells that have two blank cells in a row for example if H1 and G1 are blank then return a value thanks!

  • @miguelate
    @miguelate5 ай бұрын

    I have a sheet that imports data from 2 different sheets through import range formula. The data appears in A1:A10 from one sheet and B1:B:10 from the other. We want to be able to type in any field without affecting the formula on the first row, which is import range. Is there a way of doing that. We want to be able to write over cells that are left blank, but with a formula on top we can't. Is that even possible? We are using Google Sheets

  • @alexanderstewart489
    @alexanderstewart4892 жыл бұрын

    The final IF(OR( is a life saver, although if cell A is empty, i want to subtract cell B from 0 to show negative movement from cell A. How can i work that in? Currently i have "=IF(OR(AF4="",R4=""),SUM(AF4,R4),AF4-R4)" But the sum instead only gives a positive number rather than showing where AF has decreased (this formula runs 10 wide and 1500 down).

  • @stopdrinkingleftskoolaid6510
    @stopdrinkingleftskoolaid651010 ай бұрын

    Thanks for that. My issue is using ISBLANK() using a range of cells. =IF(ISBLANK(B3:B6),””,A2) I have 2 tables on a sheet with data. If just one of the cells in the first table in the range (B3:B6) has data, the formula places the information from a separate cell (A2) which is in first DATA table into the cell in the second table where I need the data transferred to. For some reason, the formula doesn’t work using the range in the ISBLANK() function but will work with just 1 cell in the ISBLANK part of the formula. I can’t find an answer anywhere in any video. Thanks very much.

  • @chrisjados9822
    @chrisjados9822 Жыл бұрын

    How can you use these formulas without it saying true or false? I would like it to equal another cell if the cell is blank. I am putting together a price survey spreadsheet and if I dont have any prices surveyed, I would like the cell to equal the current cell I have

  • @murtazamohammadi9370
    @murtazamohammadi93702 жыл бұрын

    I want to count two cells according two creteria but some rows are empty, I want to count the empty row according anothere two rows. How can I do that.

  • @martymabry720
    @martymabry720 Жыл бұрын

    I have a cell of numbers, the first is D10. I would like D11 to say "PASS" if that number is above the number on I6, and "Scrap" if it is below the number on I6. However if the cell is blank I want D11 to stay blank. I believe I have Excel 2016. Can you help me with this?

  • @MushtaqAhmad-of5fu
    @MushtaqAhmad-of5fu2 жыл бұрын

    dear sir in this table count blank cell in column D

  • @harish7041
    @harish70412 жыл бұрын

    How to ignore blank cell and place lesser than and grater than formula

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