[mso] Re: Formula to not give "#DIV/0!" results
- From: Jenna G <jennag6@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 15:07:00 -0400
If your interested in just hiding the error which divinding by zero
would cause when it prints, you can do this in page set-up very easily
by changing the settings in Page Set-Up under "Sheet" where it says
"Cell Errors As" you can choose "Blank"
Jenna
Kelly Arnold wrote:
> Or you could try:
>
> "=if(iserror((B14+C14)/(B14+C14+E14+F14)),"
> ",(B14+C14)/(B14+C14+E14+F14))"
>
> This should take any of the errors (#N/A, #DIV/O!, etc) and put whatever
> you choose between the " " as the "true", with the result of your
> formula as your "false"
>
> I think this will help you work out your part 2.
>
> Good Luck,
> Kelly
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Sanders, Phil (Faculty - sanderspw)
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:16 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: Formula to not give "#DIV/0!" results
>
> Hi John,
>
> On Part 1, try the following:
>
> =if((b14+c14+e14+f14)>0,(B14+C14)/(B14+C14+E14+F14),"")
>
> If you would like some text (other than a blank) displayed it can go in
> the quotes.
>
> From what I can tell, your part 2 looks correct but I may be missing
> something.
>
> Hope that helps...
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of John Perrin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:48 AM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Formula to not give "#DIV/0!" results
>
> Good afternoon Genius Excel Group (GEG),
>
> Sorry for this simple question but again I'm seem to be stuck on
> something that shouldn't be all that difficult.
>
> Problem:
>
> Part 1:
> There are 4 columns of data that are entered manually for % residual
> recipient alleles for Bone Marrow Transplant patients. That formula is
> simple enough "=(B14+C14)/(B14+C14+E14+F14)" this gives me a decimal
> fraction between 0 and 1. However, there are 16 alleles tested for from
> the patient's bone marrow to see what alleles from the recipient are
> still in the marrow and not all alleles are found. How can a formula be
> written to NOT give the #DIV/0 results if there when none of those
> alleles are found? It must have something to do with an IF statement
> but I have tried several permutations with no success.
>
> Part 2:
> I need the above result to populate another cell on the work sheet that
> gives me an average of individual marker % residual recipient. The
> average part is easy and the formula works fine if I type in the
> numbers. I tried to write an IF formula to complete this:
> =IF(H14>0,H14,"")
> but I'm not sure if this is how to write it. What I would like the cell
> to "do" is look at the result from the above problem and IF the result
> is >0, then put the result from that cell in and if the cell has
> anything else in it just leave it blank. If I leave it blank I won't
> have to change the formula for the average already written. If there is
> a 0 in there it will throw off the average.
>
> Sorry if this is confusing.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> John Perrin
>
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