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Using custom number prevent zero and negative values being displayed

reddwarf4ever

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Using custom number prevent zero and negative values being displayed.

I have a simple worksheet, which I want to hide negative and zero results.....

I found this for hiding zero value cells only ........0;-0;;@

Is there a simple way of working out myself how to hide or change various aspects of cells....colour etc and also how to group actions.

Thanks
 
Hi,

Apply this custom format in the column where you have numbers #,###;

Regards!!
 
There are 4 part in Custom Number Formatting..

Positive ; Negative ; Zero ; Text

You can hide any of this... in you case.. use formatting as
#;;;@

which is.. hiding below two parts..
Positive ; Negative ; Zero ; Text
 
There are 4 part in Custom Number Formatting..

Positive ; Negative ; Zero ; Text

You can hide any of this... in you case.. use formatting as
#;;;@

which is.. hiding below two parts..
Positive ; Negative ; Zero ; Text
Hi
Thanks, that looks interesting.....i assume then that the ; acts as a block for each field....the # and @ are just open and close symbols.....or I could be wrong LOL

Is there a way of including this but also hiding error values also, or could this be handled differently ?

I tried iferror, but had some strange results....also want the cells to have % value, .dont know if this can be added to #;;;@ or not

Thanks

Ps will look at link supplied by old chippy.....
 
# is for.. Any Number..
so for example Number Format is 00.00%;;
if you use 00.00% it will display 2 digit after and before Decimal and a %age sign.
If you write 9 it will display as 09.00% and because you are forcing it to show 2 digit before decimal.
and if you write 112, it will display as 112.00% as excel forcing it to show complete value.
# is not outer format.. just the way you have entered thenumber..

try custom number format 0.00%; ;
 
If the numbers you want to hide are the results of formulas, then you could use something like this to hide zero's, minus numbers and errors

=IFERROR(IF(A1<=0,"",A1),"")
 
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