Hiding zeroes in Office 2002

Hi
My mate uses Excel 2002. I've talked him through setting up a few formulae,
one of which is like this:
=IF(A2="",0,VLOOKUP(A2,F:H,2,FALSE))
When A2 is empty, this returns a zero - which, he says, cannot be hidden
with conditional formatting or Tools|Options|View / Zero Values. He has
another formula to multiply this value by a quantity, so he can't return a
"" - it needs to be a number.
I use Office 2000 - and don't have this problem!! Both of the above hide my
zeroes. If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it!
Cheers.

--
Andy.

[Duke Carey]

Sounds as though he's returning "0" instead of 0. After making sure that the
formula starts out

=IF(A2="",0,

and not

=IF(A2="","0",

then try custom formatting where there is nothing after the second
semicolon. Something like:

#;(#);



"Andy B" wrote:

> Hi
> My mate uses Excel 2002. I've talked him through setting up a few formulae,
> one of which is like this:
> =IF(A2="",0,VLOOKUP(A2,F:H,2,FALSE))
> When A2 is empty, this returns a zero - which, he says, cannot be hidden
> with conditional formatting or Tools|Options|View / Zero Values. He has
> another formula to multiply this value by a quantity, so he can't return a
> "" - it needs to be a number.
> I use Office 2000 - and don't have this problem!! Both of the above hide my
> zeroes. If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it!
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Andy.
>
>
>
>

[Vasant Nanavati]

Are you sure he knows to UNcheck the Zero Values box?

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Vasant

<Andy B> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Hi
> My mate uses Excel 2002. I've talked him through setting up a few
formulae,
> one of which is like this:
> =IF(A2="",0,VLOOKUP(A2,F:H,2,FALSE))
> When A2 is empty, this returns a zero - which, he says, cannot be hidden
> with conditional formatting or Tools|Options|View / Zero Values. He has
> another formula to multiply this value by a quantity, so he can't return a
> "" - it needs to be a number.
> I use Office 2000 - and don't have this problem!! Both of the above hide
my
> zeroes. If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it!
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Andy.
>
>
>

Brilliant!! The initial formula was to return "" and when I told him to
replace the "" with 0 he didn't!! He just stuck the 0 in between the "s.
Thanks a lot.

--
Andy.


"Duke Carey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sounds as though he's returning "0" instead of 0. After making sure that
> the
> formula starts out
>
> =IF(A2="",0,
>
> and not
>
> =IF(A2="","0",
>
> then try custom formatting where there is nothing after the second
> semicolon. Something like:
>
> #;(#);
>
>
>
> "Andy B" wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> My mate uses Excel 2002. I've talked him through setting up a few
>> formulae,
>> one of which is like this:
>> =IF(A2="",0,VLOOKUP(A2,F:H,2,FALSE))
>> When A2 is empty, this returns a zero - which, he says, cannot be hidden
>> with conditional formatting or Tools|Options|View / Zero Values. He has
>> another formula to multiply this value by a quantity, so he can't return
>> a
>> "" - it needs to be a number.
>> I use Office 2000 - and don't have this problem!! Both of the above hide
>> my
>> zeroes. If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it!
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> Andy.
>>
>>
>>
>>