Hiding balance total

[mailrail]

I have a monthly expense spreadsheet that I wrote that works off of a
declining balance. It's got about 15 rows but on the months that I don't use
all 15 rows, I don't want the balance showing in the column of the otherwise
blank row. The current (simple) formula looks like this: =J7-E8. Very simple,
but when i don't have an entry for "e8", I don't want the formula cell to
show anything at all. Anyone?

[Rich Bradford]

Try using the =if function to control display,

=if(E8="","",J7-E8)

Hope this helps.

"mailrail" wrote:

> I have a monthly expense spreadsheet that I wrote that works off of a
> declining balance. It's got about 15 rows but on the months that I don't use
> all 15 rows, I don't want the balance showing in the column of the otherwise
> blank row. The current (simple) formula looks like this: =J7-E8. Very simple,
> but when i don't have an entry for "e8", I don't want the formula cell to
> show anything at all. Anyone?