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How to convert practically blank but theoretically nonblank cells to blank cells ["" cell]

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    Arrow How to convert practically blank but theoretically nonblank cells to blank cells ["" cell]

    During my calculations I used a formula like this to get rid of errors:
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    These caused me many "" cells.

    Now I have to count non-blank cells but "" cells are behaved as non-blank cells as well.

    Could you help me how to convert "" cells into totally blank cells?


    Extra: Could you teach me, how to use iferror function as leave it blank if there is an error

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    Re: How to convert practically blank but theoretically nonblank cells to blank cells ["" c

    Hi there,

    To get the amount of non-blank cells in a range with "" values as blanks, you could try something like (with A1:A50 as the range):

    =COUNTA(A1:A50)-COUNTBLANK(A1:A50)

    HTH,

    FermentedR

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    Re: How to convert practically blank but theoretically nonblank cells to blank cells ["" c

    Your solution didn't help me that much but I never thought about =COUNTBLANK formula. Interestingly, when we have a cell of value ="" in A1:
    =COUNTBLANK(A1) gives 1
    =ISBLANK(A1) gives FALSE

    This is ridiculous in my opinion. Then I used =COUNTIF(A1;"") this formula counts both "" cells and totally blank cells.

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