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KevinCommunitas
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Dec 20, 2021

Excel Formula Help for $0.00 Value

I am in need of help with a formula again.  This time it is for Conditional Formatting (at least I think).  So I've tried every method I can think of, as well as using Google, to get cell D5 to show ...
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KevinCommunitas 

In the desktop version of Excel, you can hide all zero values in the worksheet:

  • Select File > Options.
  • Select Advanced.
  • Scroll down to the section 'Display options for this worksheet'.
  • Clear the check box 'Show a zero in cells that have a zero value'.
  • Click OK.

If you don't want that, you have several alternative options:

  • Change the formula to =IF(Calculations!B96+Calculations!C96=0,"",Calculations!B96+Calculations!C96)
  • Or set the number format of the cell with the formula to the custom format $0.00;-$0.00;
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KevinCommunitas
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Dec 20, 2021
I'd already tried the first option, and it didn't change anything. The 2 new options you gave me also have had no effect (I'd already tried similar formulas). I don't understand what is happening. Even when doing conditional formatting it's changing nothing.
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    JoeUser2004
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    Dec 20, 2021

    KevinCommunitas  wrote: `` I don't understand what is happening.``

     

    Because D5 is not really zero.  It is 0.00400000000000339 -- not even close.

     

    The "0.00...00339" part is probably due to the so-called "floating-point error" (anomaly, not truly an "error").  That should be avoided by explicitly rounding a calculation (somewhere).

     

    But the "0.004..." part is due to the underlying calculation.  Calculations!C96 is truly zero.  But Calculations!B96 is 0.00400000000000339.  That might be avoided by the same explicit rounding, by accident.  But whether or not it should be avoided, one way or another, is something only you can decide.

     

    We probably cannot help you any further because the Calculations worksheet is password-protected.

     

    Please "re-post" the Excel file without password-protected elements.  And instead of a link to onedrive.live.com, attach the Excel file to the posting.  Use the "browse" link at the bottom of the Reply pane.

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