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You can ensure clearing the validated cell is always permitted (and keep "Ignore blanks" deselected as required) by specifically allowing an empty string in the validation formula. e.g. if the validated cell address in your example was F8, then the validation formula would be =OR(F8="",E8<>"")
- Non-macro solution to exclude non-blank empty strings from in-cell data ...
When I want to use a range of cells that contains empty...
- Non-macro solution to exclude non-blank empty strings from in-cell data ...
27 paź 2020 · I'm trying to create a data validation error message, where by the message will appear when the user leaves a certain cell blank. I want the user to only be able to enter text within the required cell too.
I will show you 3 ways to remove the blanks from a Data Validation dropdown menu in Excel. All 3 methods are multi-step, but there is no way around this. Here is the issue:
Add a column to identify unique names, with no blanks and sort them. In C2 enter UniqFirstNamesSorted (can be changed later) and validate => Excel auto-resize the Table, adding a new column :) In C3 enter the following array formula that must be validated with Ctrl+Shift+Enter: =IFERROR(INDEX([First Name], MATCH
1 cze 2023 · To ensure that the adjacent cell is not blank, you can use custom data validation with a formula. Here’s how: Select the cell where you want to apply this validation. Click on the Data tab in the ribbon, then click on Data Validation.
When I want to use a range of cells that contains empty strings for an in-cell data validation dropdown and tell it to ignore blanks, it still shows the empty strings. You can reproduce this by entering ="" in cell A1 and then entering =ISBLANK(A1) in another cell and it will return FALSE .
6 lut 2013 · Last week I showed you how you can extract a list that excludes blank cells for use in a data validation list. Using this array formula in cells C2:C10: =IFERROR(INDEX($A$2:$A$10,SMALL(IF(ISTEXT($A$2:$A$10),ROW($A$1:$A$9),""), ROW(A1))),"")
