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Excel Spreadsheet question?

I am trying to empty out cells that have a single zero in them, when I run a search it picks out every zero whether the number 2002 or just 0. Is there anyway to "zero" in on the single zero cells and remove the information from the cell ... also if 0 is the answer to a formula I don't want to lose that.

Update:

I tried doing a sort and just bringing all the zero's to the top, but this spreadsheet is huge and has merged cells and so it didn't work.

Update 2:

OK, obviously not enough information...this spreadsheet has 700 rows and goes through column DR. I have not ever used autofilter before and that looked logical and I tried that, it brought up little carots at the top of each column where I could put in the =0 but after that, it seemed like all my information disappeared...I wiped out the zeros but how do I get everything else back?????

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Without seeing the spreadsheet:

    Use autofilter, select custom. then select "Equals" 0

    If you need to unmerge all the cells, hit ctrl + A to select the entire sheet. Then go to Format --> Cells, select the alignment tab and uncheck the box that says "Merge Cells"

  • aladou
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    This should be an easy one.

    - If you're not doing this on the entire sheet/tab, then select the data where you want to empty them out

    - Edit - Replace

    - Find what: put 0

    - Replace with: leave blank

    - Click Options to expand this dialog box

    - Check the box for Match entire cell contents

    - Replace All

    This will only remove the 0s from those cells which only have a zero.

    Good luck.

    .

  • 1 decade ago

    Are the cells with zeros in the result of a formula? if so you may need to add this to all problem zero cells:

    =if(d1="", "" , sum(D1:d5)) this may solve the problem. the =if(d1="", "" part means if D1 is null/empty then the reulting cell is zero, otherwise you will have a zero or error.

  • 1 decade ago

    you don't want zeros but you also don,t want to lose formula.

    here is one think you can try,

    put your formula in if fucation

    i.e =IF(((A1+B1+C1)=0)," ",(A1+B1+C1))

    this formula will display result if total of a1+b1+c1 is more then 0 and if it is 0 then it wont show 0 in your cell

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    is this all in one column? or thoughout all the columns?

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