real number

**kontraa** · 03-31-2006, 07:40 AM

please help...

i need to control if a value in a cell is real number greater then 0. The problem is that excel threads date as a number too...thanx

**robert111** · 03-31-2006, 07:59 AM

'RIGHT(TEXT(D21,"dd mmm yyyy"),4)

if your date is in d21 this will return the text number 2006, say...

you could then apply an IF statement to this

Ron Rosenfeld · 03-31-2006, 09:00 AM

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:40:16 -0600, kontraa
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>please help...
>
>i need to control if a value in a cell is real number greater then 0.
>The problem is that excel threads date as a number too...thanx

Since Excel stores dates as serial numbers, one way of determining if the cell
contains a date is to see if the cell is formatted as a date.

e.g:

=LEFT(CELL("format",A1),1)="D"

will be TRUE if the cell is formatted as a date.

So maybe something like:

=AND(LEFT(CELL("format",A1),1)<>"D",COUNTIF(A1,">0"))

--ron