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    Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    Hi All,

    I have a set of data. I want to use conditional formatting to make all the #N/A values to disappear. I only want the numbers. How can I accomplish this? Here is one row as an example.

    46831.20
    79066.80
    89878.60
    #N/A
    75763.64
    #N/A
    46201.80
    73854.00
    45319.80
    #N/A
    #N/A
    47334.75
    184447.72
    #N/A
    366962.31
    49380.30
    #N/A
    67712.40
    51527.90
    #N/A
    #N/A
    #N/A
    Last edited by JulieChu; 05-06-2010 at 11:24 AM.

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    Go to format|Conditional Formatting

    Cell Value Is >> Equal to >> #N/A

    Click Format and from Font tab, choose colour that matches your cell background.
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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    Hi
    are teh errors the result of a formula ? If so try =if(iserror(your_formula),"",your_formula)

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    Quote Originally Posted by NBVC View Post
    Go to format|Conditional Formatting

    Cell Value Is >> Equal to >> #N/A

    Click Format and from Font tab, choose colour that matches your cell background.
    @ NBVC:
    I've tried that, it doesn't work

    @arthurbr
    The values are numbers, there are no formulas. I paste specialed only the numbers from a data dump.

    Thx

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    Formula is missing an = sign and quotes... don't know what I was thinkin'


    should be Cell Value Is >> Equal To >> ="#N/A"

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    For data in column A select the column and use conditional formatting with formula is option and the formula

    =ISNA(A1)

    and set format to white font

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    For data in column A select the column and use conditional formatting with formula is option and the formula

    =ISNA(A1)

    and set format to white font
    Ok... I should go hide under my shell... I really don't know what I am thinking today

    Edit: I think I know what I was dreaming... i guess if it works for counting like this: =COUNTIF(I2:I4,"#n/a") then it would work for conditional formatting "#n/a")...I was wrong...
    Last edited by NBVC; 05-06-2010 at 10:54 AM.

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    That works only for cell A1

    I've tried selecting the entire column in the source as well i.e.

    =ISNA($G$6:$G$20)

    That doesn't work either.

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    Select the range: G6:G20 and then invoke CF,

    but enter only =ISNA(G6)

    this will auto update relatively in your range.

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    Re: Conditional Formatting to make #N/A disappear

    THAT WORKS!

    AWESOME WORK GUYS!

    Thanks,

    -Julie

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