Print blank cell if formula is an error

[WLHagen]

Hi all! I'm using Excel 2007. I know when I had Excel 2003, there was a program setting that I saw in a magazine that could do this (and I did!), but I can't find it in the 2007 version!

I have a spreadsheet that uses formulas based on several pieces of data that I input from several sources. When I print the part of the spreadsheet, I don't always have all the data available to enter, so I have a cell that shows - #DIV/0! = as the data (because the underlying cell data is blank at this time). Without modifying the cell formula, is there a way to make a global Excel setting that would print just a blank cell if the formula is in error??

As always, thanks in advance for any and all answers!

 

[lenze]

You can use Conditial Formatting on these cells
=ISERROR(A1) and format your Font color to white

lenze

 

[WLHagen]

Thanks, but I know it was a global Excel setting, that it would do this, regardless of which file you were in. I don't want to have to go back and modify multiple non-contiguous cells in multitudinous files.

 

[lenze]

There is no global setting for this that I know of, so your options are limited!!
Best thing is to design your sheets so the errors do not occur!
lenze

 

[WLHagen]

I found it! It wasn't a global setting for "all files" but it was at least a setting that can be changed for each file, as needed.

Go in to Page Setup, Then on the Sheet tab under the Print options, from the "Cell Errors As" dropdown box, choose <BLANK>.

Lenze -I design my sheets so errors don't occur, but in the world that I work in, I have to get information from several sources on a monthly basis, and unfortunately, their communication to me is not as timely as I would prefer, and I have to print a document before I've received all my information. Having my spreadsheet print a <BLANK>cell rather than "DIV/0!" in it affords me the space to at least write in the information when it's received.