Have Excel formulas that return 0, make the result blank

Question

A recurring Excel problem I have is formulas such as INDEX(array,row,column) that return 0 when there\'s no result, rather than returning blank.

What is

Answer 1

There is a very simple answer to this messy problem--the SUBSTITUTE function. In your example above:

=IF((1/1/INDEX(A,B,C))<>"",(1/1/INDEX(A,B,C)),"")

Can be rewritten as follows:

=SUBSTITUTE((1/1/INDEX(A,B,C), " ", "")