Cells appears blank but aren't ???

rhombus4

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  2. 2016
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Have some cells which both appear to be blank

When I do the following formulas I get different results
=ISBLANK(B12) True, =ISTEXT(B12), FALSE, =ISNUMBER(B12), FALSE
=ISBLANK(B13) FALSE, =ISTEXT(B13), True, =ISNUMBER(B13), FALSE

Also When I did a Replace and Find, (didn't enter anything in the Find field) it found both cells


I only found it when I did a pivot table and I got an empty space in the Row Labels field
PS the 11 below is actually in the Count Box and not in Row Labels as it apears

Row Labels
Count
11
Yes
250
No
83
Maybe
3
(blank)
20
Grand Total
367
 

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Looks like it, Just realised the data is from a combobox and its possible somebody selected something in a combobox then decided to change their mind and delete it which changes the cell from isblank (true) to Isblank(False)

Code was
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C3") = ComboBox1
so added .Value -
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("C3") = ComboBox1.Value

I'd read somewhere that .value was the default if you didn't enter anything so not sure why it worked

Is there a formula that can actually pick up whether a cell is "" or actually blank
 
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