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    Round 2, best way to make a cell blank until another cell is populated?

    Last glitch I just thought of and thanks to FD and Ker, they made this easy.

    The second glitch I just thought of was..............how do stop the result of cell showing until the referenced cell has data in it? I have IF statements in 5 rows 500 lines 750 lines deep. These prepopulate "YES" or "NO" based off of a reference cell, but I don't want to have some random YES, or ### there until that referenced cells data has been entered. G, H, I, J, K

    Under the Master tab if you choose to open. The IF statement in the cell currently in case you do not want to look is: =IF(K3>=40,"Yes","No") so I want the cell to be blank if K3 hasn't been populated yet..............if that makes sense.

    Best way to do this?
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    Re: Round 2, best way to make a cell blank until another cell is populated?

    Did not look at your file (I will if this doesnt work), but something like...
    =IF(A2="","",your-formula)
    where A2 contains something that would always be entered into a new row
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    Re: Round 2, best way to make a cell blank until another cell is populated?

    I get at too many arguments error.

    =IF(K3>=40,"Yes","No") is what is in the cell now, so now I'm putting =IF(k3="","", K3>=40,"Yes","No") which obviously will have issues.

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    Re: Round 2, best way to make a cell blank until another cell is populated?

    Is this supposed to go into G3? If so, you have a drop-down in those cells, you dont need a formula?

    To "fix" what you posted...
    =IF(k3="","", K3>=40,"Yes","No")
    you would need to add another IF, just like I suggested...
    =IF(k3="","", IF(K3>=40,"Yes","No"))

    IF(K3="","",your formula)

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