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Elizabeth has attended:
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When the error message shows when dividing by zero. And you actually need to leave that cell as zero but you dont want the error message to appear how can you overcome this??

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Hello Elizabeth

Thank you for your question and welcome to the forum.

You can use an IF function in the cell/s where you are putting the formula which is doing the division for you, to prevent the #DIV/0! error appearing.

Say for example that you have the following formula in cell C1:
=A1/B1

and cell B1 contains 0.

By changing the formula as follows, you can stop the #DIV/0! error appearing in cell C1 and have a 0 appear instead:

=if(B1=0,0,A1/B1)

which means:
if the value in cell B1 is zero, display zero in cell C1, otherwise display the result of dividing A1 by B1 in cell C1.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
Amanda

 

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