2009/3/11 Chris Bia <[email protected]>

> Hello Harold Fuchs ! I'm following your method, but when i arrive to point
> 5), the result on Column C is this:
> #NAME?
> #NAME?
> #NAME?
> #NAME?
> #NAME?
> #NAME?
>
> ...
>
> For every cells ;-/



It looks to me as if you copied my formula exactly. the "A1" and "B1" in my
formula are *examples* based on my procedure which has the addresses in
Column A and you copied them into column B. If instead you used columns Q
and X then the formula would be "=IF(Q1="";X1;"")". Hmmm. On reflection I
don't think that can be the answer because your sheet almost certainly has
A1 and B1. Hmmmm.

Perhaps you are not entering the formula correctly. The outer quotes must
*not* be entered. Apart from that I suggest you copy my formula and paste it
into the first cell of your column C and then change the A and B as
necessary.

Oh. Are you using OxygenOffice? There has been some discussion that in
OxygenOffice the semicolons between the parts of a Calc function should be
replaced by commas. So the formula would be "=IF(A1="",B1,"")".

If this still doesn't work, send a sample as an attachment to your next
message. I think this list allows Calc documents as attachments.

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