how to apply formula in excel cell without the value being shown

Question

The question may be a little difficult to comprehend and i cannot find better way to out it across. So here i am explaining with an image

I have a formula in G8. I want to apply the formula to 500 rows.

But when i drag.. i get this

What I want is that the formula should be present for all the 500 rows.. but zero should not be visible initially. That is, after I enter value in G9, value should be calculated in G9

I know that we can hide the zeros from the option of excel..but that does not serve my purpose. Is there any way to achieve what i need?

Answer 1

Type this in your result cells.

=IF(A11+B11 = 0, "", A11+B11)

Here A11+B11 is my formula to get the summation of A11 and B11.

Answer 2

修改您的公式以检查F8是否为空：

=IF(F8<>"",F8/Working_Days,"")

Answer 3

control-tilde

It changes from "display answer" view to "display formula" view

Links:

• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386995,00.asp
• http://www.mrexcel.com/articles/show-formulas-in-cells.php