How to replace zeros with empty cells? Although this question seems simple, you may find yourself in a situation where you need something like this, and you will not have the right answer. When it comes to data in Pivot tables, it is logical to define this in the options. But they allow you to determine how to treat empty values, not zeros. Zero is not an empty value. You will find out how to replace zeros, regardless of the type of table, in the “recipe” that follows…
In several previous posts I wrote about the formatting of the contents of the cell. In addition to the standard ways of displaying its content, users can also define custom views. User-defined formats can be greatly used to enrich the appearance of the report. Using them, we achieve effects similar to the conditional formatting technique, and we can easily copy them or use them to create formatting styles.
When formatting the content of a cell, one of the items that we can set up is the way the content of the cell is displayed. Since the options for creating such formats are in the Number tab of the Format Cells dialog box, the settings to be addressed are often called “formatting the number”. Although the content of a cell does not have to be a number. It can also be text, date, time or other information. Have you ever wondered: how to create custom formats?
