[mso] Re: Excel IF function to sort data into different worksheets from master?

Excel gives you true or false as default results if you don't tell it what
it wants ... in your case you told it the True part, but not the false part
... so tell it to give you a blank cell ("") when it's false

Your adjusted formula would be:

=IF(master!B2="a", master!A2,"")

I'm in a real hurry here, so I don't have a chance to test this, but I
believe blank cells won't screw up your sort

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Linda

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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Shawn McGinniss
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:27 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Excel IF function to sort data into different worksheets from
master?

Hello,
I'm trying to create conditional statements to get certain rows to copy into
different worksheets from a master based on the string value for a specific
column.  I tried doing something like, *=IF(master!B2="a", master!A2)*,
which works okay, except values that don't equal "a" come back with FALSE in
the cells.  Is there a way I can create the false condition to just do
nothing and skip over it?  I'd like the sorted worksheets to be condensed
rather than have a bunch of rows with FALSE as a value, but the way I'm
doing it is causing the rows to be place marked.

Screenshot attached---


Thanks,

Shawn McGinniss

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