Display Blanks instead of (Null)

Laurie Carpenter

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Could someone please show me how to display blanks instead of '(Null)' in an Excel spreadsheet field who has some fields that may contain null values? My users don't want to see '(Null)' in a field....they just want it to appear blank.
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typically a formula to return a blank needs to contain "" (double quotes)
 
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Thanks for your quick reply. It's not a calculated field....the spreadsheet is populated from other products (Monarch Pro and Monarch DataPump) and the field does actually contain null values.....my users don't know the difference between null values and blanks.....to them, they're the same and they just want to see blanks on the screen, not some text like '(Null)'. I don't see anywhere that I can specify to display null values as blanks in Excel.
 
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If the cells are bing populated with the text "NULL".

Do the following:

Highlight th range of cells that contain your data
Ctrl+H
Find what = Null (type the word in)
Replace with = (leave this blank)
Select the replace all button
 
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Your comments got me thinking and I found a way to pass blanks instead of null values from Monarch Pro which fixed the problem. Thanks for your help and ideas!
 
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