convert cells that appear to be blank to blank?

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Robert Minneapolis

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I had a range of cells that contained IF formulas in which the FALSE result returned "". I used 'Paste Special' to convert them to straight values, but now the 'blank' cells are being counted as nonblank in another COUNTA formula. Is there an easy way to clean this up?

EDIT: Also, is there something different I should be using in my IF formulas to produce an 'actually' blank result rather than just one that appears to be blank? For example, the way I write them now is something like

=IF(LEFT(A1,5)="PARTY","AWESOME","")

thanks in advance,
Robert
 

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Hi Robert,

You can clean the "empty" cells by selecting the entire range you want to clean and running this macro:

Code: 
Sub CleanRange()
   '"Cleans" the selected range by clearing out all cells containing nothing
   'but non-printing characters including nulls and spaces
   Dim Cell    As Range
   For Each Cell In Selection
      If Not IsEmpty(Cell) Then
         Cell.Value = Trim(WorksheetFunction.Clean(Cell))
         If Cell = "" Then Cell.ClearContents
      End If
   Next Cell
End Sub

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