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    Text Refrencing formula

    Good morning all,

    I was just wonfering how to write an if function that refrence text ? What I have is a cell where you manually enter a text code and then I have an general overiding index and I want the indext to apear if there is no text in the first cell

    Basucally lets say abc1 is my index can I write an If function that can read the absents of text ?

    Thanks

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    Re: Text Refrencing formula

    Do you mean?

    =IF(A1="","abc1",A1)

    This checks if A1 is empty. If it is it inserts text "abc1", else it will insert what is in A1.
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    Re: Text Refrencing formula

    Sorry thanks I got it to work righ atfter I posted this,

    Thank you for taking the time.

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    Re: Text Refrencing formula

    Something like:

    =IF(A1="","There's nothing in A1","")

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