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    Making a cell blank referring to another blank cell

    Hello, Im currently writing a payroll sheet within excell and trying to write an IF statement to make a cell blank if referring to another blank cell but it is showing the formula is incorrect. Can anyone help with this please. Below is the following IF statement that im using;

    =IF( F4 <97, AM4*0.8, IF( F4 >=97, AM4*1.1, IF( F4=" ";" "; AM4)))

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    Re: Making a cell blank referring to another blank cell

    Quote Originally Posted by JUDSON_IRELAND View Post
    Hello, Im currently writing a payroll sheet within excell and trying to write an IF statement to make a cell blank if referring to another blank cell but it is showing the formula is incorrect. Can anyone help with this please. Below is the following IF statement that im using;

    =IF( F4 <97, AM4*0.8, IF( F4 >=97, AM4*1.1, IF( F4=" ";" "; AM4)))
    Seems you switched to semicolons instead of commas at the end. Perhaps you meant:
    =IF( F4 <97, AM4*0.8, IF( F4 >=97, AM4*1.1, IF( F4=" "," ",AM4)))
    Last edited by klvaughnsd; 05-08-2014 at 11:48 AM.

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    Re: Making a cell blank referring to another blank cell

    i tried both, neither works

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    Re: Making a cell blank referring to another blank cell

    Figured out the problem its working now. thanks for the information tho

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    Re: Making a cell blank referring to another blank cell

    This was the solution

    =IF( F4 = 0, AM4*1, IF( F4 <97, AM4*0.8, IF( F4 >=97, AM4*1.1, AM4)))

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    Re: Making a cell blank referring to another blank cell

    This formula :
    =IF( F4="","",IF( F4 <97, AM4*0.8, IF( F4 >=97, AM4*1.1, AM4)))

    appears to work. While testing it, I put in data in F4 and AM4. When I looked at results, I thought the F4 = "" needed to move up front as "" would be less than 97. But then I noticed, you were testing for a space " " instead of null ""..
    Last edited by klvaughnsd; 05-08-2014 at 12:08 PM.

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