BLANKS (Not Really Blanks) AND Rearrange ignoring blanks

Hi Gurus, I have below queries in the sheet I have attached

1. The cells were pasted with Special Paste BY VALUES which were calculated by the formula and had no values returned. They appear blank and are not really blank.
They show counts when only blank cells are selected.
I want to clear all the contents of these BLANK LOOKING cells in the array to enable correct counting of the blanks and the ones with the values. I HAVE FOUND A FIX FOR THIS WITH CTRL+F and Selecting "match Entire Cell Contents" does a fantastic job.


2. In the Sheet, I have Vendors in the First Column and have many Entries with Values as determined by formula and blanks cells in between. Can I get these Row
Entries serially by ignoring blanks? (As shown in the "Required" Sheet

Thanks in advance

Shiva

1. "The cells...they appear blank"

WHAT CELLS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
NAME A CELL REFERENCE THAT APPEARS BLANK BUT IS NOT.

try this aray formula, in B2, copied across and down:

=IFERROR(INDEX(PI!2:2,SMALL(IF(PI!$B2:$DX2<>"",COLUMN(PI!$B2:$DX2)),COLUMNS($B:B))),"")

Next time, can you post a SAMPLE sheet with 10-20 rows/columns and not your ENTIRE sheet!!!

Array Formulae are a little different from ordinary formulae in that they MUST be confirmed in the FIRST CELL ONLY by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. After that, the array can be dragged down as normal, to cover the desired range.

You will know the array is active when you see curly brackets { } - or "curly braces" for those of you in the USA, or "flower brackets" for those of you in India - appear around the outside of your formula. If you do not use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will (almost always) get an error message or an incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.

Don't type the curly brackets yourself - it won't work...

You're welcome.

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