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Andrea Milne

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January 10, 2021 - 7:42 pm
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Can someone help please, this is probably pretty simple however my knowledge is fairly basic. 

At the moment there are no values in cells H6-H20, I would like cell H21 to remain blank unless a value is entered into any of the cells within the H6-20 range, once a value has been entered within the H6-H20 range I would like cell H21 to return the text POA.   I have attempted below however does not work and returns a spill error. 

=IF(H6="","",IF(H6:H20>0,"POA",""))

thanks in advance

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its ok I have worked it out as =IF(COUNT(H6:H20),"POA"," ")

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Possibly you can use COUNTA() instead of COUNT()

COUNTA() can handle text, numbers etc.

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