How to Display User-Defined Text in All Blank Cells in Excel
Sometimes there are some blank cells exist in created table, if we want to mark them with user-defined text to make them easier to be found out, how can we do? Actually, there are several ways to implement this. In this article, we will introduce you two tricks to display user defined text in blank cells, the first one is applying IF function, the second one is applying Go to special function in excel.
Precondition:
Prepare a table record decrease and increase status for amount. If amount is increased, no comment records. So, if we want to enter ‘Increase’ in all blank cell, we can follow below two methods to display ‘Increase’.
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Method 1: Display User-Defined Text in All Blank Cells by IF function
As we all know, if logic is True, IF function will return value of True, so we can set user-defined text as true value, and use IF function here to return user-defined text.
Step 1: In D2, enter the formula =IF(C2=””,”Increase”,C2), then click Enter.
Verify that Increase displays as we expect.
Step 2: Drag the fill handle down. Verify that if Cn cell is blank, then Dn cell displays Increase, otherwise text in Cn will be copied to Dn as well.
Step 3: Copy D2:D11 to C2:C11. Then delete column D. Then all blank cells in table are filled with user-defined ‘Increase’ properly.
Method 2: Display User-Defined Text in All Blank Cells by Go to Special Function
Step 1: Select the range contains blank cells.
Step 2: Click Home in ribbon, then click Find & Select in Editing group.
Step 3: Select Go To Special in Find & Select menu.
Step 4: In Go To Special screen, check on Blanks option. Then click OK.
Step 5: After above operating, all blank cells are selected. Type ‘Increase’ directly and press Ctrl + Enter.
Verify that all blank cells are entered with ‘Increase’.
Related Functions
- Excel IF function
The Excel IF function perform a logical test to return one value if the condition is TRUE and return another value if the condition is FALSE. The IF function is a build-in function in Microsoft Excel and it is categorized as a Logical Function.The syntax of the IF function is as below:= IF (condition, [true_value], [false_value])….
