jezza667

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Hi, I am trying to work out how to write an IF statement/ formula that looks at 2 cells in Sheet A of my workbook and displays the value of the cell that has text in it (one of the 2 cells will always be 0) in Sheet B of my workbook.

I'm struggling to work out how to do it... any advice please? TIA
 

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Neither of those work I'm afraid so I think I am probably asking the wrong question. Further context to my ask is below:

I'm creating a form in an Excel workbook for logo design requests. In the form, users will either use the form to :
a) raise a new request OR
b) manage an existing request

Both of these 'journeys' have common fields such as name, date of request, department etc.

After a user has gone through one of these two 'journeys' (they will never go through both in the same form), they then have to go through to another sheet in the same workbook (in the same form) to request their logo be uploaded to a website (lets call this Upload Journey). This 'journey' shares some similar fields such as name, date of request, department, etc. Regardless of whether the request is new or existing, the user will always end up in the same Upload Journey sheet.

When the user opens the Upload Journey, I would like those common fields (name, date of request, etc) to be pre-populated based on which previous 'journey' the user took in the form (i.e. raise a new request or manage an existing request).
 
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In what way didn't the two formula work?
 
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Excel didn't update the destination cell when I switched between entering data in the new and existing journeys.

both statements suggested above kept returning '0'
 
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Do you have calculation set to automatic?
Also what did you enter in A1 or B1?
 
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